Save the Date for Circle in the Water Presents More Light by Bryony Lavery

“I have often written specifically for children and I have learned that you have to free your mind from thinking that, because you are young, you won’t understand complex ideas. You certainly have to be entertaining and cut out any flab from your work. Young people are very obvious critics. They will tell you directly what is not working. But, after all, they’re open to ideas, excitement and magic”. – Bryony Lavery

Originally produced as part of the BT National Connections season of plays written to be performed by young people, More Light takes us inside the tomb of China’s first emperor, who owns everything including the sun. Determined to be remembered, he orders the construction of a dazzling sepulchre, a work of art complete with a ceiling of jeweled stars, quicksilver rivers and a floor that is a map of his world. When the emperor dies, his concubines are immured alive in the mausoleum with him. Used only to dining royally, the starving women soon come up with an ingenious way of staying alive; they are driven to extremes of human behaviour, which test to the limit their mutual loyalty.

Kerry Rochester
Head of Theatre and Dance
West Island School