Celebrated real life story The Light House comes to the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen on Thursday, May 14, promising audiences a tender, funny and defiantly hopeful story about journeying through tricky times.
An autobiographical show, The Light House is about falling in love and staying in love, even when the person you love doesn’t want to be alive.
Tender, funny and defiantly hopeful, The Light House is a real-life story of falling in love and staying in love, even when the lights go out and you’re lost in the dark. It’s a love letter to life.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Head of Programming, Steven Milne, said: “This is a truly special show, thoughtfully produced and performed, which carefully takes us through some difficult territory, and is ultimately an incredible story of hope.”
Light House creator Alys Williams said: “Of course, you always make a show hoping it will resonate with people, but we’ve been amazed by the responses. I’m still receiving messages from people about the last tour. It’s very special.”
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The Light House is autobiographical and a genuine passion project for Alys, who added: “Our society is getting so much better at talking about mental health and suicide but I still don’t think we hear many stories about the care involved or the possibility of recovery. I think a lot of people have stories like ours, where someone has ‘gone to the brink’ as it were but found their way back into the light, perhaps over and over again through the years. I wanted to tell that story. In the end, though, The Light House isn’t about mental health. It’s about love, and hope, and the way human beings hold onto each other when things get tough. It’s about getting through this messy, beautiful thing called life, together.”
The play, which includes gentle audience participation, is a warm, witty and poetic theatrical journey in which audiences are invited to join Alys as she dances in the kitchen, sings in the streets and tries to turn the light back on.
Tickets are on sale now, available from www.aberdeenperformingarts.com, phone (01224) 641122 or visit the box office at His Majesty’s Theatre or the Music Hall.
