Every day I drive past strip malls and think about the kids we went to school with who died so we could shop and watch TV. Why was I so desperate to become a citizen of this?

Fifteen years ago, Alice was an interrogator in Guantanamo Bay. The pills she took at the time mean she can’t remember what she did.

Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a prisoner there. Dying of liver failure, he can’t forget what she did.

One day, he visits her.

Lidless, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's devastating first play, won the Yale Drama Series Award for Playwriting in 2009. A work of extraordinary intelligence and finely-balanced sensibility, it marries the implacable logic of a Greek tragedy with an all-too-modern setting.

Lidless is an extraordinary and original attempt to show the enduring strain on the victims of the U.S.'s deployment of torture at Guantanamo. David Hare

As HighTide’s Artistic Director, Steven Atkinson has produced three Seasons of acclaimed work, which have featured collaborations with the National Theatre, Bush Theatre, and Aldeburgh Music, and included Stovepipe, which the Sunday Times listed as one of the Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade. He directs Lidless following his 2009 production of another American premiere, Muhmah (HighTide Festival 2009).

Lidless contains adult themes and some strong language.

Cast

Amber Agar

Paul Blair

Anthony Bunsee

Greer Dale-Foulkes

Penny Layden

Direction
Steven Atkinson

Design
takis

Lighting
Matt Prentice

Sound
Christopher Shutt

Music
Tom Mills

Voice
John Tucker

Mentor (supported by IdeasTap)
John Tiffany

Casting
Camilla Evans and Greer Dale-Foulkes

Assistant Director
Oscar Toeman