A BALLOON WILL POP *At Some Point During This Play
Straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival…
Part stand-up, part monologue,
ALL existential crisis.
Elijah has been doing some reading, and has some stuff to get off their chest. There’s only one
problem. Well there’s a lot of problems, but this specific problem looks like a balloon, and Elijah
has no idea where it came from, or what it means.
A Balloon Will Pop at Some Point During This Play is one person’s quest to understand why our
problems feel so huge, especially when science tells us we’re missing 95% of the Universe… Oh
wait… that might have something to do with it.
There are protests, conspiracy theories, black holes, time witches and very big conversations on
the side of a bridge. It’s an existential one-man dark comedy show about a lot.
And there’s a balloon.
‘A truly bizarre show that takes us from caveman to the edges of the universe as Andrew
Macmillan gives us a lesson on “the magnitude of the unknowable void.”’ […] ‘it’s easy to imagine
that this show will become a word-of-mouth success.’
Rob Warren – Everything Theatre.
East & Under Theatre Company is a collaboration between a Norfolkian and an Australian, who
graduated in the middle of COVID, and then spent a couple years feeling pretty depressed. It’s a
brand new company who’s goal is to platform scrappy, powerful and important new work from
creatives in the UK and Australia who got kicked in the nuts a little bit in 2020.
A Balloon Will Pop* is the debut play of East & Under Theatre Company.
It has been developed with the assistance of multi award winning Dramaturg and director, Micha Mirto (Villain Interrupted, NewsRevue, Lethe) and is being directed by Eric Loren (Shakespeare’s Women, Dr. Who, Tomb Raider).
This production is presented by East & Under Theatre Company in association with ACT Hub.
Details
When: 8 November – 9 November 2024
Where: ACT Hub at Causeway Hall