Bloomsbury Publishing PLC We Were Promised Honey!

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future.The story that we're going to tell is the story of us; the story of our future.It's a story that we are going to tell together. I hope that sounds okay. From the makers of Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist and the accident did not take place comes an act of communal storytelling.There's a baby born in a lighthouse, a man on fire in the middle of the desert, two lovers reunited in a ruined city, there's a dying spaceship on the edge of a black hole. we were promised honey! is a hopeful, hopeless prophecy for humankind. A meditation on inevitability, despair and how we tell a story when we already know the end.This new edition includes a foreword written by Katie Hawthorne.This edition was published to coincide with the production at London's Soho Theatre in November 2022, following a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe 2022.