The Deep Space

Synopsis

In a contemporary northern town two women, Sam and Caitlin, are locked in a room together following a devastating accident. Caitlin must help Sam face up to the truth of the tragedy by digging into the past and confront the monsters hiding in plain sight. In The Deep Space no one is as they first seem. 'People look their most beautiful when they're just about to cry...' Marking the arrival of northern playwright Lila Whelan on the London stage, the play is a bold, haunting and explosive battle between imagination and reality and explores how the journey to uncover the truth can be the most painful journey of all. A modern horror story, The Deep Space, confronts our notion of compassion - who can we believe when the line between monster and victim is blurred?

Our Review:

22 February 2013

When a theatre's box office pavilion sits on the ground floor of a packed out pub, you're reminded of the fact that London's actors and playwrights have historically tailored their work to attract economic capital.

For Lila Whelan, as for the John Websters and the Thomas Nashes that came before her, surviving in theatre is as much dependant on entrepreneurial savvy as it is about the play itself. The Deep Space is virtually impossible to ‘market’ with both success and accuracy. No one in the audience failed to see that, after sitting down to a play sponsored by Abel and Cole (mythical sons of Abraham and organic farming), receiving a flapjack and lemonade, and then witnessing two hours of domestic rape, infanticide and abandonment.

The theatre upstairs is square, with tiered seating in one corner. The set is a simple table and some chairs. The play has two characters that are onstage all the time – Sam, a young woman being kept ...

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