Paradise Lost at FRINGE WORLD 2024

Paradise Lost at FRINGE WORLD 2024

January, 2024

The Flaming Locomotive: Engine Room, Perth, Western Australia

About This Festival

A visceral one-man performance, reigniting Milton's epic masterpiece in all its bizarre beauty. This is the tale of the fall and rise of the first anti-hero, forefather of defiance, anarchy, lust and revolution: Lucifer will have his vengeance. One of the great works in English literature meets Japanese Butoh, as Bare Witness invites you to experience the Word made Flesh.

Lucifer awakes, shrouded in flame, his beauty ravaged, his berth in Heaven lost forever. Defeated and condemned, the unwilling Lord of Hell turns his attention to the new world, and the open battleground for man's soul: for what cannot be won by strength of arms, can yet be corrupted by temptation. This original adaptation breathes new life into some of the most mesmerising language ever written, as the struggle between good and evil at the foundation of western civilization is ripped open and laid bare.

Christopher Samuel Carroll is an Irish theatre artist, trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.
2017 marks the 350th anniversary of Paradise Lost’s publication in 1667.