In the middle of the night in 1981, a young Irish migrant is wakened by a strange woman in a German underground station. She tells him to run, run quickly…. And so begins nine years of running and searching: for love, work, escape, meaning, hope.

Spanning the decade, this autobiographical tale hurtles from the squats, factories and bars of Munich and Berlin to the deserts of Morocco and ultimately home to a new life in fringe theatre and protest politics in Dublin.

It is a time of recession, mass unemployment and migration, hunger strikes, miners’ strikes, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, anti-apartheid and miscarriage of justice campaigns.

With video montage, choreographed movement, a pumping 80s soundtrack, hilarious comedy interlaced with painful accounts of addiction, loneliness and recovery, renowned Monaghan performing artist Declan Gorman recreates a decade of global and Irish political upheaval and tells his own story in a visceral live performance.

Grant aided by MONAGHAN COUNTY COUNCIL ARTS OFFICE