20:15, Fri 7th – Sat 29th August 2015 at SpaceTriplex, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Summer Vacation
* The Tab .
“Captivating” TCS .
“A brilliant translation of Conrad’s haunting parable” **** Varsity.
In Edinburgh after a successful Cambridge run, this is Conrad’s famous novel - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now - adapted into an epic one-man show. Join Marlow on the deck of his steamboat for a story of greed and cruelty, fallen heroes and petty monsters. A journey up the Congo river and into the dark heart of 19th century European colonialism.
“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much…”