Welcome to death. A place, a state, where there is no future, no more plans. All you have is what you did, what you can remember. Out of those millions of memories that crowd your brain, you are allowed to select only one that you will live and relive throughout eternity. All other memories will be lost to you, as will all the people who do not appear in the memory you have selected. So choose carefully - very, very carefully. And choose quickly: eternity is in a hurry.
This hour-long show is based on such an engaging and fascinating idea that it can hardly fail to be a winner. Like Sartre's Huis Clos, but more interesting, it is a theatre show that actually makes you think about your own life, pulls you up sharp. Would you have a memory worth keeping, one that is really significant? Or like the poor souls who cannot conjure a memory in the allotted time would you be condemned to limbo, a hellish void where all memory is merely a smudge?
In fact, the script and construction of this story are both pretty old-fashioned, but besides the initial premise it is also the precise and confident execution that makes this piece so fascinating. Performed on a stage bare but for a few wooden boxes, it makes a virtue of simplicity as well as having tremendous visual flair and emotional nuance. The Imaginary Body is a company quite new to me. We will hear more from them.
· Until August 25. Box office: 0870 745 3083.
