The Opium Eater
Presented by Mull Theatre
by Andrew Dallmeyer
A most unconventional double-act! It’s Edinburgh, 1820, and Thomas De Quincey, the flawed English man of letters and laudanum addict, sits shivering in his dingy lodgings beneath a Grassmarket brothel. Driven by demons from without and within, he depends on his simple-minded servant Willie to bring him the narcotic he craves whilst he scribbles desperately to meet a deadline which has already passed.
Laugh-out loud funny and deeply moving, this is an utterly compelling portrait of a bizarre and symbiotic relationship.
“Combines an exuberant eccentricity with a genuine passion for words and a powerful economy of expression” Time Out
“One of the best things I have ever seen in fringe theatre” The Times
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