Past Half Remembered

This show is the second part of the European Narratives Trilogy which also includes My Long Journey Home and The End of Everything Ever. These shows still tour, often as part of a Trilogy event in festivals or special events.

It was made during the summer of 2002 in the small Czech village Mseno.

It received its premiere at the MTM festival in Mostar in Bosnia in August 2002 where it won the Jury Prize for best new work.

Past Half Remembered is a madcap journey through the epic sweep of twentieth century Russian history. The Reds and the Whites do battle, the Germans invade, tea is served from a samovar and there is a very big wedding. Actors change roles and get confused about which side they are on and someone gets an umbrella shoved up their nose.

'Epic and comic at the same time... scintillating'
Hospoda Noviny, Prague

Using a dizzying array of theatrical devices and a direct storytelling style NIE tell the story of Maria Michaliovna, at one moment an old lady sitting in her flat, in the next, a young girl dancing in the park.

Maria's life spans the Soviet century in a remarkable tale of love, loss, calamity and hope. As she looks back on her life past and present blend and blur as she is swept along by the sheer force of history.

Winner of the Jury Prize 'Days of Youth Theatre' Festival, Mostar, Bosnia, 2002
Winner of the Jury Prize for 'Best New Work' ASSITEJ Festival, Kristiansand, Norway, 2004.
Winner of the Jury Prize for 'best new work', TIBA Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005.
Nominated as Best Visiting Production, Toronto 2004/5

Past Half Remembered won the Herald Angel Award and the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2006.