Anima Theatre Company transfer to The Space this spring with their Edinburgh smash hit The Sleeper. Set on an overnight train somewhere through Europe, Karina, a very British writer, naively reports a woman hiding in her bunk. What follows is an examination of the stories we tell each other and how we choose to tell them, revealing a minimal portrait of a young woman struggling to find a place to go.
Described by The Scotsman as “an exceptional piece of theatre making” and Longlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, The Sleeper weaves together the real testimony of Syrian refugees and the unusual personal experience of writer Henry C Krempels.
Dark, haunting and unusual, this production hones in on a situation familiar to the thousands of refugees, those who become stuck in a kind of purgatory – somewhere between leaving home and finding a new one. Enveloped in the tension that exists between absolute strangers, these characters hope the less they reveal about themselves the less obvious their differences become. But do we need to be moved in order to help someone, and how do we choose the people we care for?
The Sleeper is at The Space 3rd – 14th April 2018 and Brighton Fringe 5th – 7th May 2018.
