Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened beside Me)

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Image courtesy of Grec Festival de Barcelona

Ben Duke, the single performer and creator of this show and one of the founders of the Lost Dog company, was trained in theater at the Guildford School of Acting, in dance at the London Contemporary Dance School and in English literature at the University of Newcastle. Here you have, then, the three pillars that sustain his artistic work and that are also the main elements that gave rise to this version of the famous epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton.

Duke plays—and this is not a joke—God himself, a supreme being who creates the entire world out of pure boredom and watches as his creation spirals out of his control. The performer liberally recreates Milton's work through words, music and movement in a fun, surprisingly witty show. It features God as Satan's lover and warrior angels that walk around the kitchen of the Almighty's designer flat. Scenes from the life of the performer himself are slipped into the work, which talks about Creation in capital letters, but also refers to the act of creation and seems to suggest that we are all somehow clumsy gods in our own existence.

Performance will be in English with Catalan subtitles.

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