Silent Planet

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Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed. At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment for protesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement allows them both a kind of freedom - at the risk of their lives.

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Eve Leigh trained on the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme and Studio Group, and the National Theatre Directors Course. Her short plays include Enough, White Tuesday and Branches So Big They Block Out The Sun, Wall and Youre the Kind of Girl. Her work as a dramaturge includes Numbers and How To Win Against History. She further directed Circles and Chris and Me, Well, and adapted and directed The Dybbuk. Eve is Creative Director of the All Change Festival at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and an Associate Artist of Firehouse Creative Productions.