This is Tales Of The Afterlives
Brighton Festival Exclusive
After a hard life on Earth, don't we deserve something more?
Last year, Sydney's Luminous Festival brought David Eagleman's cult book Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives to the stage in a world premiere collaboration between the author and Brian Eno.
Now, in only its second ever outing, Eagleman and Eno reprise this pioneering multi-media production exclusively for Brighton Festival.
What happens after we die? Is heaven a bureaucracy? Are we recreated based on our credit card records? Does the afterlife contain only those people you remember? Or is it little more than our accumulated acts on replay? For a small book, David Eagleman's Sum asks some big questions!
Here Eagleman's short, sharp vignettes are 'reincarnated' for a live stage encounter by a diverse cast of 'readers', including the author with visual images from Wordsalad's Nick Robertson and music by Brian Eno.
Funny, provocative and profound, This is Tales Of The Afterlives considers the fate that may await us and refracts new light on our here and now.
'Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives is terrific. It's such a good idea that I was grinding my teeth all the way through, wishing I'd thought of it first.'
Philip Pullman
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