NEON at Camden Fringe

Jude, a therapist in England, meets a man named John Doe who claims to be God. He seems to be just a deluded recluse, living with a normal flatmate and enjoying Capri Suns. That is until Thomas arrives from America with visions of a strange man in his flat. The laurel-wreath necklace around the stranger’s neck seems all too familiar, and Jude finds herself caught up in the birth of a new religion.

NEON has been a project over a year in the making, inspired by the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’: ‘And the people bowed and prayed / To the neon gods they made’. The play explores loneliness, death and transcendence, and the potential to find faith in the unlikeliest of spaces.

Caged Bird Theatre is an emerging theatre company founded by Jasper Frost and Patrick Swain [pictured below]. They first collaborated on Swain’s play ‘Michael’, which received outstanding reviews. Since then, Swain has continued to write plays such as ‘Chuffed to Bits’, while Frost has gone on to direct at the OSO Arts Centre, as well as found space performances such as James Fritz’s ‘Ross and Rachel’.