The Fog

I don’t remember clearly when it all started... Probably the day after that lorry driver somewhere drove over a five year old girl, back and forth... I remember I looked at the CCTV of the scene... just a confused mix of coloured dots, hardly distinguishable, but still, it was happening. Back. And forth. All I could see. The day after I watched this video, when I went out of the house, I noticed something had changed. It wasn’t me... It was around me.

As an entire city – or maybe is it the whole world? – starts to disappear under a supernatural fog, a little community sees its bonds slowly deteriorating. Surrounded by shadows and vanishing visions, when exactly do we start losing balance?

Vivid, nightmarish and shot through with satirical humour, The Fog is the brand new play from debut playwright Marie Yan. A big hit with audiences at The Tron Theatre’s Progressive Playwrights’ evening, the play is a powerful and highly original response to anxieties around fragmenting communities and emotional isolation.

Directed by Sam Rowe, creator of the “complex and forthright” Denton And Me (****The Herald) and director of Robert Softley’s “outstanding” If These Spasms Could Speak (*****Fringe Review), this is an opportunity to discover a distinctive new writing talent through a bold and unnerving evening of theatre.

Supported by the Mary Leishman Foundation