“Topical, tender-hearted, fascinating” –Independent
“A cunningly written clash of religious cultures across continents; and the story of a modern marriage... a strong and serious contender for this year’s most promising playwright” –Whatsonstage.com
A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.
Michael, a married man running a small business, accompanies a squabbling delegation of bishops to Africa as a lay volunteer. There, an unsettling encounter with a hotel porter leads to a series of agonizing moral dilemmas that compromise his work, his marriage – and his faith.