Dark is a one-character play based around a man called Terry, an obsessive-compulsive depressive with a fear of light. In order to cope with the terror of every day living, he forces himself to remain in an almost constant self-induced Psychosis, maintaining only impersonal superficial relationships with inanimate objects like his boots and radio. He also suffers from short-term memory loss.
Terry’s world comes crashing down, when out of the blue he is informed that he is to be executed with immediate effect. He is also given the task of organizing it himself. This includes the execution, the funeral and the payment of his outstanding debts.
He has to somehow pull his fragmented mind together in order to give himself a dignified sending off that will leave nobody in any doubt that he was a good person. He looks back on his life, rewriting the facts as best he can in order to clear his conscience of any wrongs he may have inflicted on others, on himself and on the world in general.
As the end nears, as the light disappears and the darkness takes over, as the cruelty and injustice of humanity unfolds, Terry finds himself more and more comfortable with his world becoming Dark. There is nothing to fear. There never has been.
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S. D. Clifford
S. D. Clifford was born in Killarney, Ireland in 1975. His works have been published in over 30 different anthologies, including The Wired Cripple, The Galway Literature Review, Breacadh, The Kingdom,Nowhere to Nowhere, Political Dogma and various others publications. In 1997 he founded the New Irish Writers Movement. In 2002 his play Laurie and Jessie's Christmas was optioned by an Award Winning Theatre Company in Ireland, and its text was used in New York at The American Opera Project during the summer of 2006. His play Don't Know-Never Know was staged in Killarney and Listowel, Ireland in 2003. He has been involved both in writing and directing on various film projects including Wie man sich umbringt ohne zu sterben (How to Kill Yourself without Dying) and Europe's Next Superflop (Post Production). His books Letters of the Lost and Diary of a Bipolar Fetus are currently on sale via Amazon.com. For more information on S.D.Clifford visit here
Pedro Malacas
is Portuguese and was born in 1977. He studied History of Art at Universidade de Coimbra while he also starting doing theatre in T.E.U.C in 1999, where he trained with José Abreu da Fonseca, Rui Quinteiro, Sílvia Brito, André Gago, João Grosso e Rogério de Carvalho. In 2000 he started working professionally with different people and in different fields, such as acting, dramaturgy, scenography, stage photography and directing. He has worked with Alberto Pimenta, Manuel Guerra, Antônio Mercado, Deolindo Pessoa, José Geraldo, Daniel Simon, José Carretas, Manuel Sardinha, Mário Montenegro, Pedro Matos, Filipa Freitas, Margarida Miranda, among others. He has been involved with works from authors such as Tchekov, Mrozeck, Edwin A. Abbot, Rudyard Kippling, Ionesco, Liouboumir Simovitch, Georg Büchner, Amin Malouf, Russel Edson, William Blake and Thomas Bernhard.
He also wrote the plays Bichos Pretos, Talk the Talk and A Falência, all of them were staged. Recently he directed The Theatre Maker by Thomas Bernhard, Gatuskão by José Geraldo e João Brás PoPo based on Leonce und Lena by Georg Büchner and also the play Starview, always with some acting jobs in between. He now lives in Berlin where most of the time he feels good as he doesn't understand a word of what is being said around him.
Stage Design by Tom Mairs
Tom Mairs was born in Sudbury, Canada, in 1986. He has designed several productions while attending the University of Victory and his work has been displayed at student exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial. He also has been involved in assisting professional designers on the west coast of Canada.
