This is a show about the future. The story we’re going to tell is the story of us, the story of out future.
I’m going to tell you this now: it doesn’t have a happy ending.
A solo storytelling show about living towards an inevitable end. A performer tells the future of the audience; what will happen to them in the minutes, centuries, millennia after the end of the show. He invites them to participate; reading lines, playing parts, singing along. There’s a baby born in a lighthouse; a man on fire in the middle of the desert; two lovers reunited in a flooded city; a spaceship on the edge of a black hole. There’s hope, despair, and everything between.
we were promised honey! first performed 3rd - 28th August at Paines Plough’s Roundabout @ Summerhall in 2022.
It then transferred to Soho Theatre, London, 22nd November - 3rd December 2022, before touring to major venues all over the UK including Bristol Old Vic, Traverse Theatre, HOME and Plymouth Theatre Royal.
In 2023 it premiered in the USA at 59E59 Theaters in New York City, before touring to Dublin Theatre Festival.
FINALIST: OffWestEnd Award - Production (Play)
SHORTLISTED: OffWestEnd Award - Sound Design
SHORTLISTED: OffWestEnd Award - Lead Performance
Written and performed by Sam Ward
Produced by Rhian Davies
Sound Design by Carmel Smickersgill
Lighting Design by David Doyle
Additional Direction by Atri Banerjee
Dramaturgy by Deirdre McLaughlin and Craig Gilbert
we were promised honey! was co-commissioned by Soho Theatre. The development was supported by New Diorama Theatre and by Paines Plough.
You can buy the text from Bloomsbury here.