Provocative Edinburgh Hit The Curing Room Returns To London

The Curing Room

The Curing Room by David Ian Lee, which caused a stir at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequently played a limited season at the Pleasance Islington, will return to London this summer with a four week run at the Vaults Theatre, Waterloo from 4 – 29 May. The Curing Room is a bold, daring thriller based on true events, in which the ensemble of seven male actors perform the show completely nude. Originally written and developed in New York with a series of workshops and public readings, The Curing Room marked its inaugural production in Edinburgh with the following cast, who will return to London: Rupert Elmes, Tom Holloway, Matt Houston, John Hoye, Harvey Robinson and Marlon Solomon. John Last will join the cast. Joao de Sousa said, “In spite of the moments of brutality and gore, The Curing Room is a beautifully staged production with an undercurrent of … Read more

Edinburgh Fringe Hit The Curing Room Transfers to London’s Pleasance

The Curing Room Transfers Pleasance Theatre

The Curing Room, David Ian Lee’s powerful and provocative play, which caused a huge stir at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with brave and critically acclaimed performances from seven actors stripped bare on stage, will transfer to London this autumn with a three week run at the Pleasance Islington from 21 October – 9 November. It’s Spring 1944 – seven Soviet soldiers have been captured by the Nazis, stripped naked and abandoned in the locked empty cellar of a monastery in southern Poland. Deprived of all resources and ties to the world they knew, the prisoners must redefine their concepts of order and human nature and confront the ultimate taboos – murder and cannibalism – in order to survive. The Curing Room is a thriller that shines a light on dark side of human behavior that is as old as humanity itself – was inspired by an allegedly true anecdote … Read more