Forgotten in the Land of Egypt

<p><i>I look at these fields and I try to imagine what they were: crop fields maybe. Or fields of sheep. And these... power lines. I try to imagine that they lead somewhere - but they never do. Only under.</i> <p/>In 1631 The Fens the flat area of land stretching from Cambridge to Norwich were drained. <p/>In 2050 The Fens return to the sea. Two children play in the waterscape. They tell tales of a mythic Waterman who scours the water for sunken parts. But in the bitter struggle for survival soon play adopts a more sinister note. <p/>Meanwhile in Ely 2023 a priest gets a visit from a woman haunted by prophetic dreams. <p/>Tom Murray's <i>Forgotten In The Land Of Egypt </i>is a play about grief faith and the climate crisis; the crashing confluence of past and present; the refusal to heed the warnings we're given. It's a play about loneliness and the longing for human connection. <p/>This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere UK tour starting in September 2024.</p>