Obstacles to Coming Home

 Obstacles To Coming Home is beautiful, evocative, epic yet intimate visual theatre, which investigates personal and nostalgic journeys. It imaginatively incorporates live and recorded soundscapes, video projection and theatre performance to create a charming search for a plateau in life that we would call 'home'.

Presented on a brilliantly designed large map of America the work traces an epic journey drawn across two great American texts; Jack Kerouac's On The Road and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.

From a far-off transistor radio, the sounds of a distant age drift listlessly into the evening sky. In the Mid-West of America, two figures say their inevitable farewells. One resumes his journey without a second thought, the other stand in a haze of rain with a backwards glance. 'Boy Lost' and 'Defiant Girl' recount their memoirs and stories; still unsure as to whether they even left home.