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Three strangers meet on a train. In one hour, the train will crash and they will all die.

From the Spanish company that created the Be Festival winning Solfatara comes a new show exploring ideas of paradise through the meeting of three strangers on a train that’s about to crash. Locus Amoenus takes its title from a Latin term meaning “pleasant place”, characterised in literature and visual arts throughout history as a sunlit glade or meadow.

Through a series of conversations and situations, efforts to understand and be understood, the show asks what paradise means to each person and, as the train speeds towards to its fatal conclusion, do we pay enough attention on the journey there?