Stage: Translunar Paradise

Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum are bringing their hit play, Translunar Paradise to the Brighton Fringe Festival, 10–11 May 2012. After a ground-breaking season, which saw the company premiere Translunar Paradise to substantial critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, they have gone on to win seven theatre awards for this production.

Translunar Paradise takes you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go.

Exquisitely created, Translunar Paradise is told entirely without words and in their place are movement, haunting music and masks. This is a powerful and emotional tale of a man who is confronted by the solitude of bereavement.

Director and performer George Mann says: “This is about the gap between young and old. Age, like a mask, can obscure the fact a person was once young. We’re working without words to convey this story through the body and music on a poetic level. The audience will be immersed in feeling, sensations and movements. We hope they go home feeling they’ve experienced something very special.”

Brighton Fringe Festival, The Warren, Tuesday 15 May, 8pm; Wednesday 16 May, 6pm & 8pm, £5–£9, 01273 917272, www.brightonfringe.org