Showing @ Scottish Storytelling Centre 24-25 Feb
How many times have you finished a book and wondered just what happened to the characters after the covers closed? Award winning writer Lee Gershuny’s new play The Old Woman Who Lived In A… takes one of the earliest tales we hear as children and poses just that question – what happens next?
The Old Woman Who Lived In A…. takes the shoe dwelling matriarch of the nursery rhyme and places her story twenty years into a surreal future. Set in ‘The Café of No Tomorrows’ where only today exists and The Waiter writes the rules. Now the children of the old woman have come looking to confront her brutality and get answers to their many questions.
In an intriguing and difficult play, Gershuny and director Corinne Harris have mixed traditional theatre, live music and poetic storytelling techniques to examine complicated, divisive human relationships from a unique perspective.
Part of the Edinburgh International Festival of Spirituality and Peace this is a story that uses the microcosm of dysfunctional family dynamics to make bold thought provoking points about the wider human experience and will undoubtedly leave the audience asking fundamental questions of their own.