The Lives of the High-Rise Saints
The Lives of the High-Rise Saints
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Thu 10 Oct 2013
- Sat 12 Oct 2013
19.00 - 20.00
(1 hour)
_ Price: £10
/ £8
_ Age Group: PG
_ Venue: Cairns Lecture Theatre
This is the story of the residents of a housing estate. The residents suspect the estate was formed by a divine concrete mixer outside the plan of creation. They gather on the roof of one of the blocks to change their sad status of incidental, unwanted children. They want a legend, each individually, which would give them immortality and a feeling of safety.
“You are nobody if you are not described in beautiful words first,” says one of its residents. We look at the grey, concrete reality of cities like an ascetic desert, which gives birth to saints, martyrs and, mystics…
Please note, the Summerhall programme notes the events start time as 20.00, this is a missprint, it is in fact at 19.00.