refuge

Director

New Nordics Festival 2020

IKEA employee Laurence prepares to give a presentation to new recruits. But behind the scenes, he is in the midst of a crisis following a brutal breakup and the death of his mother, and IKEA becomes his only safe haven. Locking himself in the store overnight, his reflections turn to guilt, environmentalism, mortality, spiders, and the imaginary security guard that appears from nowhere.

Refuge is a one-man play about loneliness and Western angst, mass-produced furniture, and much much more.

THE YARD - 18 MARCH

Writer Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson

Translator Philip Roughton

Performer Martin Donaghy

Designer Cara Evans