In Limbo

Written by Claire MacDonald
Directed by Jenny Culank
In association with The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and The Junction, Cambridge

About the production

Toured nationally from February 2005.  Adapted from a story in Counting Stars by writer David Almond, twice winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book Award.  Design Nettie Scriven. Sound and music composition by Graeme Miller featuring singing by Rachel Unthank.  Lighting Design Arnim Friess.

In Limbo tells the story of an adolescent boy’s encounter with questions of life, death and love through his friendship with Miss Golightly, a local seamstress, whose memories and First World War love affair come to affect his own growing up. Rich in detail, language and imagery, the stories are all set in the small town of Felling, Northumbria, in the early 1960’s.

In Limbo was also at The Pleasance 2, for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2005.