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 mean she can’t remember what she did.

Fifteen years ago, Bashir was a prisoner there.

Now he pays her a visit.

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 collaborating with the National Theatre, Old Vic, Bush Theatre, and Aldeburgh Music, and includes Stovepipe, which the Sunday Times listed as one of the Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade. He directs Lidless following his 2009 HighTide production of another American premiere, Muhmah (HighTide Festival 2009).

Lidless contains adult themes and some strong language.

Cast
Nathalie Armin

Christian Bradley

Antony Bunsee

Greer Dale-Foulkes

Penny Layden

Direction
Steven Atkinson

Producers
Francesca Clark, Samuel Hodges, Nate Sence

Design
takis

Lighting
Matt Prentice

Sound
Steve Mayo

Music
Tom Mills

Voice
John Tucker

Mentor (supported by IdeasTap)
John Tiffany

5 - 30 August (not August 17)

Daily: 12.15pm 

Prices: £12.50 and £10.00

Previews (5 - 6 August): £7.00