YEP Directors Festival 2023: Be You Living or Be You Dead
Fri 14 Jul to Sat 15 Jul 2023
EVERYMAN, EV1
£5
‘We spend so much time playing grown-ups as kids, it’s time to play Vikings as adults.’
Most families only seem to come together for a wedding, big birthday, graduation, funeral, or in this case, emptying your dead Nan’s loft. Be You Living or Be You Dead explores grief, belief and what it means to be a big kid. Based on Icelandic folklore and the mysterious Huldufólk or ‘hidden people’, siblings John, Greg, Tina and Steph are transported from their world to a new one, rediscovering their childhood along the way.
Content warnings: Loss, grief, strong language.
Company
Directed by Sophie Compton
Cast: Yasmin Jenkins as Tina, Michael Irvine-Hall as John, Elspeth Todd as Steph, Dominic Quinn as Greg