THE LIES

by Degna Stone

TUES 23 RD MAY – SAT 10 TH JUNE

Time: 7:30pm plus 1:00pm Saturday matinees

Tickets:

Pay What You Feel (23rd – 27th May)

£15 – £3 (30th May – 10th June)

Age Recommendation: 14+ tickets: alphabettitheatre.co.uk

Access: Captioned performance

Wednesday 31st May

Audio Described performance

Wednesday 7th June

All Saturday matinee performances will be relaxed.

FOR ANYONE WHO LIES AND EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN LIED TO. NOT SUITABLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE TOOTH FAIRY.

We’ve been lying to ourselves forever. We create mythical beings to shield our children from the dark realities of life – the Easter Bunny, Santa, the Tooth Fairy – but was it ever about the magic of childhood? Or was it always just a form of control?

The people you thought would never lie to you have been lying all along. Everything you thought was true is open to interpretation. Words matter but language shifts and meanings change all the time…How do you even begin a conversation with someone who believes a different theory of truth?

Praise for Degna’s previous work:

“What a joy, at last, to hold Degna Stone’s debut. They are a spellbinding poet: passionate, political and precise. Their poems lay bare the human heart and what it means to love and be loved in a world full of trouble. Unafraid of the ragged seams of life, they hold us, all our sorrows and failings, with the deepest compassion, urging us to be bold, take the risk and make the world better.”

Liz Berry on Proof of Life on Earth, 2022

Join The Liar as she unravels how we fell into the trap of accepting lies as part of everyday life. From the little white lies we tell our children to the great big whoppers we tell ourselves about who we are as a nation.

We’re all complicit, so when are you going to stop lying to yourself?

Degna Stone is a poet and poetry editor based in North East England. They are co-founder and former Managing Editor of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine and an associate artist with D6: Culture in Transit and The Poetry Exchange.

THE STAGE, 2019 ON PROBABLY