The Library Ssss-sshow

The set was made from 3 tons of books at £10 a ton, some in teetering and swaying piles threaded on wires to the lighting rig, mostly shelved precariously for the cataclysmic finale. A Cult Author invites the audience to witness his exploration of a magnificent library encapsulated behind a vast white membrane. When he cuts his way in with a scalpel, and the bleeding membrane flies off over the audience, he finds himself lost on the wrong floor. He is somewhere deep within the library’s bowels, in a dingy world where flabby bookworms scuttle beneath mounds of disembowelled books, and two lugubrious look-alike Librarians hunt them with 6 inch nails. This show also featured John Schofield from the Bristol-based Crystal Theatre of The Saint.