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we were promised honey!

Archived Show

Overview

Produced by:
YESYESNONO Productions
Dates:
May 09 - May 21, 2023
Run Time:
1 Hour, 5 Minutes
Intermission:
No
Theater:
Showing in Theater
Tickets:
$30 (59E59 Member price: $25)

Show Info

Written and performed by Sam Ward

“The show that we're about to do is a story of the future. The story we're going to tell is the story of us. I'm going to tell you this now: it doesn't have a happy end.”

A lone performer tells the story of the future of the audience; what’s going to happen to them in the decades, centuries, millenia after the end of this show. There's a baby born in a lighthouse, there's someone on fire in the middle of the desert, there's two lovers reunited in a flooded city, there's a spaceship on the edge of a black hole. Everything has already been decided. This is the story of the end.

From multi-award winning performance company YESYESNONO comes an act of communal storytelling. A hopeful, hopeless prophecy for earth and humankind. A story of us, our future, of paradise and how we get there in the end.

After sold-out, critically-acclaimed runs in Edinburgh and London, we were promised honey! arrives in New York City for its US debut.

Sam
Ward
David Doyle,
Lighting Design
Carmel Smickersgill,
Sound Design
Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo Caption: Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo Caption: Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo Caption: Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo Caption: Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo Caption: Sam Ward in we were promised honey!
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
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Producing Company

YESYESNONO Productions

YESYESNONO is a multi-award winning performance company based in the UK. In 2018 they were listed in The Guardian as one of the "Best Young Companies" in the United Kingdom.

Read more at: www.yesyesnono.org


Reviews

★★★★★ "Sam's innovative script makes for a play, unlike anything I've ever seen."
"Equal parts poetic and dramatic; poignant and clever, the show encompasses the human experience."
"Powerful unifying experience"
 – All About Solo, Critics' Choice

"A visionary science fiction-ish tale"
"As a storyteller, Sam Ward is quite adroit at drawing us in" 
Talkin' Broadway

"An existentialist, reflective (and very effective) offering" Cinema Stage

★★★★ "Ward creates a sense of joyful collective enterprise, his lyrical script gently prodding us to take ownership of the choices we make and, perhaps, accept some responsibility for our future." – The Guardian

★★★★★ "Storytelling of the finest, with a warm, welcoming narrator and the audience sharing the story telling in a collaborative, non threatening way!" – BritishTheatre.com 

★★★★★ "An apocalyptic, strange hour of theatre that makes you feel grateful to be alive" The Financial Times