ENVELOPED IN VELVET

 Four people strive for raw sensation amid beer, neglect and teeth.

In a series of interweaving monologues, these characters expose the struggle between how they really feel and how they’re conditioned to feel. Connected but separate, their stories eventually collapse and collide towards a shared place and a shared experience.

In this fiercely honest investigation of human connection and social isolation, the audience are placed at the very centre of the experience.

This was a new play by Piers Black, winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, developed with HOME and IdeasTap. Enveloped in Velvet was a site-responsive piece of theatre, appearing in a railway arch as part of Flow Salford in September 2015, then an abandoned house in Peckham as part of BasicSpace Festival before finally being staged in a bar above the Arts Theatre in the West End.