One-woman play by Glen Berger, starring Marilyn Ann Bird, about an eccentric librarian who chases a trail of clues from her suitcase.
Underneath The Lintel is at Nottingham Arts Theatre on George Street this weekend, with three performances across Friday and Saturday. It's a one-woman play by Glen Berger, directed by Chris Sims, and Marilyn Ann Bird takes the whole thing on her own.
The story follows an eccentric librarian whose world tilts off its axis when she sets off on a worldwide chase, guided only by scraps of evidence from her battered suitcase: a 113-year-overdue library book, a pair of trousers unclaimed at a London laundry, and a Bonn tram ticket from 1912. As she unravels the trail, the boundaries between fact and myth begin to blur, and the piece settles into something described as part detective story, part spiritual puzzle, and part confession. The script draws on the ambiguous tale of the Wandering Jew to explore how people can think about the unthinkable and speak about what is unspeakable, and it isn't above taking the audience into deeper, darker territories.
It originally went on Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, and it runs about an hour and a change, using music and the screen atmospherically. There's an age guidance of 15+ on this one, so keep that in mind if you're bringing anyone younger.
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Tickets are £15. There are three slots to choose from: Friday 23 October at 19:30, and on Saturday 24 October, a matinee at 14:00 and an evening show at 19:30.
