The Urmetazoan

The Urmetazoan description

‘Your sister’s problem was she got to see how big the universe was. But she thought that made all of us small’

Sisters are strange – a collision of opposites and alignments, pulling and pushing away from each other. Alice and Abigail are no different. Alice got their mother’s looks; Abigail got her sense of humour. Alice has a Nobel Prize for Medicine; Abigail likes to get stoned on the sofa. Abigail is a homebody; Alice is preparing to leave the earth forever on a one-way mission to deep space.

When the sisters rediscover the joy of being in each other's orbit, the concept of a goodbye becomes much harder than either of them anticipated. But the countdown has already started…

A graduate of Hampstead’s Inspire Programme, Alex Rugman is an award-winning writer and co-artistic director of Freight Theare. Previous work includes How To Save A Rock (Pleasance Theatre), Move Fast and Break Things (Camden People’s Theatre) and An Investigation (Peckham Fringe). Anna Ledwich returns to Hampstead, where her previous credits include Bird Grove, The Billionaire Inside Your Head, and the Olivier nominated productions of Dry Powder and Four Minutes Twelve Seconds.

Captioned:

• Wednesday, 21st October, 7:45pm
  
• Tuesday, 22nd October, 2:45pm

Touch Tour:

• Saturday, 24th October, 7:45pm

Playing at Hampstead Theatre

Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London, NW3 3EU GB (venue info)

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