Pool (No Water) - Stagetext (London) November 8, 2006
London, England W6 0QL
Pool (No Water)
A Frantic Assembly, Lyric Hammersmith and Drum Theatre Plymouth production.
Playwright: Mark Ravenhill
An horrific accident. An artistic dilemma
If you’d been in that hospital with us then maybe, maybe you’d have felt the same...
The uncompromising Frantic Assembly (Dirty Wonderland, Hymns, Peepshow) returns to the Lyric in a thrilling new collaboration with acclaimed writer Mark Ravenhill (The Cut, Shopping and F**king).
A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers a terrible accident.
As the victim lies in a coma an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art? The group is ecstatic in its new found project until things slip out of their control and, to the surprise of all, the patient awakes…
Pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new show about the fragility of friendship, and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success.
Added by AlisonB on October 25, 2006