Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell

Ten Plagues

A work-in-progress - the beginning of a new musical theatre collaboration commissioned by London Artists Projects
Performed by Marc Almond and special guests, Direction and design Stewart Laing, Musical director Stuart Hutchinson

5pm on Sunday 25 April 2010
Presented as a Royal Court Rough Cut
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London, SW1W 8AS

A rare opportunity to see emerging talents and established playwrights in development, Ten Plagues is told entirely through a series of songs and explores humanity's struggle with sickness and death and celebrates our capacity for survival.

"In London Came the plague in sixteen sixty five One hundred thousand dead But I alive."

London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eyewitness accounts from 1665, Ten Plagues relates one man's journey through a city in crisis.

Tickets £7.50 from Royal Court box office on 0207 565 5000 or read more about Ten Plagues and book tickets.

Presented in association with David Johnson with support from The Mackintosh Foundation