Breathless, Alive!

at the Thoc festival (Cyprus)

Breathless Alive!

In a future where humanity has been culled by a plague of engineered bacteria, and machines (mechas) run an algorithmised society, two strangers meet in a psychological evaluation room, one a relic of a wayward history and the other bearing the desperate face of the present, ready to flee the consequences of past choices. As the session spirals inexorably towards a raw confrontation between past dreads and future hopes, histories will be unearthed and stories rewritten as they both begin to realise that to step into the future, one must sometimes survive the haunted ashfields of the past, and not everyone makes it out at the other end.

Thoc festival

The THOC International Theatre Festival, hosted by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, is a vibrant celebration of contemporary theatre from around the world. Showcasing bold new voices and daring stagecraft, the festival invites audiences to explore urgent questions through the lens of cutting-edge performances.


Direction and dramaturgy | Suresh Nampuri
Assistant Director | Andriana-anna Tsiotsiou
Actors | Carmo Bebiano, Pat Butler
Production | Thoc Festival

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