Regolith

A stunning and poetic meditation on the loves and hates, the murder and betrayal, and the sweet destruction of a mother and daughter relationship.

Across a barren landscape and into the city of fire, down the course of the freezing river and out to the edge of the universe, Regolith is a beautiful testament to the power of language, set in the wrecked, ruined rubble of the world. Words can shine a light on the terror in your heart. Do you love your daughter? Yes, but do you love her enough?

An Irish writer living in London, playwright Chris Lee is a former Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre where two of his plays have been presented – The Optimist’s Daughters (1997) and Online and Paranoid in the Sentimental City (2000). He was Anglo Irish Bank Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland’s National Theatre, which has presented two of his plays in its Peacock Theatre – The Map Maker’s Sorrow, and The Electrocution Of Children which won the Stewart Parker New Playwright Award. His other plays include Hummingbird (Old Red Lion), Eat The Enemy (Old Red Lion and TheaterLab, Houston, Texas), Vermilion Dream (Salisbury Playhouse), The Ash Boy and The Water Harvest (Theatre 503). His plays have also been performed in English and in translation in New York, Houston, Copenhagen and Paris, while The Water Harvest is currently in pre-production as a film. Chris’ most recent play The Orgy of Outrage recently had a reading at The Soho Theatre.