A Dead Body in Taos

‘When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I’d be free.’

Sam hasn’t spoken to her mother Kath for three years when she learns that she’s been found dead in the New Mexico desert.

Traveling to the small town of Taos to identify the body, she soon discovers Kath has become embroiled in an unsettling enterprise. Now Sam has an unimaginable chance to rebuild their broken relationship. But first, she must decide whether she can finish what her mother started.

Directed by Rachel Bagshaw (The Shape of the Pain, Midnight Movie), David Farr’s compelling new play is both an unsettling science fiction and an intimate study of loss and bereavement, examining how artificial intelligence could alter our understanding of death, consciousness and the soul.

A Dead Body in Taos is co-commissioned by Fuel, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Warwick Arts Centre with support from Bristol Old Vic; the work is supported by Arts Council England and produced by Fuel.

All performances of A Dead Body in Taos will feature integrated creative captioning.