Lost In Peru, a new play by Benjamin Yeoh, is being performed at the Camden People's Theatre from 8-27 April 2003, directed by Sarah Levinsky.

Human rights, asylum and global atrocities are very much on the world's agenda. Benjamin Yeoh's new play, Lost in Peru, addresses these concerns in a deeply personal and moving way.

A torture victim recounts the experience of his captivity. A man laments the end of a relationship. But can private grief be measured on the same scale as public pain?

Lost in Peru enables a London theatre audience to engage with stories that seem remote from our everyday experience of grief. It draws on true accounts of torture from Turkey to Guatemala to Tibet - from the Disappeared of Latin America to the persecution of Iraqi Kurds - and contrasts these with a love story that is closer to home. Lost in Peru explores the language in which painful events are expressed and reveals where words are inadequate - but out of such shocking experiences Benjamin Yeoh forges poetry and powerfully memorable images.

"...tiny diamonds that glow in the dark " [The Stage - on Lemon Love by Benjamin Yeoh]

"There was a polish and confidence not often found on the Fringe...Work of this originality is rare... ground-breaking work." [Ben Harrison, Theatre Director at Grid Iron and former Associate Director, Almeida - on Little English directed & devised by Sarah Levinsky]

Lost in Peru is produced with the support of London Arts

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