8th – 9th July.

There is a possibility that God made everything because he was terrified of doing nothing.

Here is a retelling of the story of the beginning of everything inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost – told through words, music and the easily misunderstood medium of dance.

A show for anyone who has created anything (child, garden, paper aeroplane) and then watched it spiral out of control.

Ben Duke has created work for Rambert, Dance Umbrella and Phoenix Dance Theatre. In 2016 Ben won the National Dance Critics Award for Outstanding Male Performance for Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me).

 “The comedy is divine, but the images of love and loss are achingly human” Independent

 “Heavenly” Evening Standard