Menagerie Hotbed

Menagerie Theatre have accepted my one-page play Home from Space for their Hotbed Festival this Sunday. An astronaut returns to his family home just in time for breakfast, where his parents are making toast and doing the crossword.

It was inspired by returning from my own travels in South America. Travel Writer John Brown summed it up in Two Against the Amazon, penned in the 1950s: you’ve been through the darkest, deepest jungle in the world, tussled with tribes, danced to dark rhythms and swum with piranhas; you get home, and people say, “Oh, you’ve been away. You missed Wimbledon! What a pity. Let me tell you all about it.”

Here is the first page of the story I wrote back then for Brazilian magazine, Speak Up.