Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade

“When a man has lost all his hope, he is not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” – Sophocles.

Across the city, three people are connected by a gruesome discovery - even if they don’t know it. Amy, a hotel cleaner, discovers her second dead body on the job. Jim spirals into a post-traumatic depression after discovering a dismembered body in one of the storage units he hires out. Kate lashes out violently at her boyfriend and his dog after stumbling across a body on her morning walk.

Laura Wade’s Breathing Corpses is a delicate yet brutal look at the effects of death on a person and their relationships, and their grappling to understand mortality and morality after their world has been changed forever.

Directed by Jess Davis
With Nisrine Amine, Xavier Coy, Zelman Cressey-Gladwin, Mark Langham, Monica Sayers, Joshua Shediak, Emma Wright

Stage Manager: Caity Cowan, Production Design: Kate Beere; Lighting Design: Sophie Parker; Sound Design: Sam Cheng; Resident Photographer: Becky Matthews; Dialect Coach: Linda Nicholls-Gidley; Intimacy Coordinators: Michela Carattini & Adeeb Razzouk; Fight Choreography: Scott Witt