Icarus 2.0

Sebastian Lawson and Jamie Wood won a Fringe First in 2008 for their bleakly humorous office drama Paperweight. This year, the pair are back with Icarus 2.0, a play which promises to be cut from the same funny-yet-poignant cloth. In an inventive take on the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus, it explorers the relationship between a geneticist and his jar-made son using video and physical performance to drive the story on.

Following up Paperweight, an all too realistic depiction of the banality of office life, will prove tough but Wood and Lawson—both of whom are accomplished performers and co-artistic directors of two separate theatre companies—are certainly up to the challenge. In addition to performing in Icarus 2.0, Wood is directing another show, Graceless from all-female theatre company Petticoats Rip. And if both Graceless and Icarus 2.0 can live up to expectations, he may establish himself as one of the most versatile theatre-makers on the Fringe this year.