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I find the world we live in fundamentally absurd, particularly in the way we’ve come to understand happiness. We spend our lives accumulating things, chasing success, controlling outcomes and convincing ourselves that the next achievement will finally make us happy. There’s something inherently comic, and rather tragic, about that.

This contradiction lies at the heart of Brewtopia, my new absurdist tragicomedy about Arjun, a homeless Indian tea connoisseur who owns almost nothing yet finds extraordinary joy in the simple ritual of brewing tea. Opposite him is Claire, a social worker determined to improve his circumstances. Both believe they understand what makes a good life. Neither is entirely wrong.

What happens when helping someone means taking away something we cannot see?

As a Greek-British writer and director, I’ve always been fascinated by human contradictions. Greek culture has given me an appreciation for the dramatic, the philosophical and the extraordinary hiding within the ordinary. I bring that sensibility to Emotional Absurdia, a dramaturgical form I’ve developed in which familiar situations become subtly off-kilter before the absurdity fractures, revealing something deeply human.

Through humour, music, scent and the ritual of tea-making, Brewtopia invites audiences into a world where material poverty and emotional richness collide.

I hope audiences recognise something of themselves in both characters: our need for security, our longing for freedom, and our tendency to overlook the small pleasures that make life worth living.

You can catch Brewtopia at Upstairs at the Gatehouse on Tuesday 17th November & Wednesday 18th November from 7:30pm (60mins). Tickets are available through the Voila! Theatre Festival Online Box Office.

Brewtopia – Voila theatre festival