In May

In May is a beautiful and sumptuous piece of music theatre charting the end of one man's life.

Written by Frank Alva Buecheler and with music by The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, this production features haunting, stunning projected images, and a live string ensemble.

In May takes the form of a series of letters from a son to a father, each set to music composed by Neil. The letters cover the final months of a man in the advanced stages of cancer and undergoing a period of chemotherapy. He has sent everyone in his life away – his father, his lover – and we are left to puzzle, as they are: for what reason?

Sung from the perspective of Anna, the man's bereaved lover, the show is a
moving and at times funny meditation in song: on life, family, fathers and sons, and the perspective that death might bring to our sense of the beauty of the world.