Mongrel Island

Synopsis

Marie is losing herself in her grey office existence, trapped by endless piles of paperwork and the same people saying the same things every single day.

But as she is forced to work later and later into the night, she discovers a deeply strange twilight world where a new possibility for rescuing her sanity is illuminated by the fluorescent office lights.

Commissioned by Soho Theatre and written by up-and-coming writer Ed Harris, Mongrel Island explores the mind and memory, offering a perspective of how the workplace can strip away our humanity.

Combining madcap, surreal humour with an indictment of the corporate world's subjugation of individualism, Mongrel Island is a bittersweet, touching and darkly humourous play.

Themes

• Night work
• Night work--Drama
• Women clerks
• Women clerks--Drama
• Work environment--Drama
• Work environment