Stairway To Heaven at Blue Elephant 15 June 2010

Stairway To Heaven by Steve Hennessy, directed by Chris Loveless, at the Blue Elephant Theatre , a fringe venue in Camberwell south London, from 15 June to 10 July 2010.

Produced by Stepping Out, Fallen Angel Theatre & Simon James Collier in association with The Blue Elephant Theatre

Cheops' Pyramid. Egypt. 2,700 B.C. The biggest, most terrifying and dangerous construction site the world has ever known. A hundred thousand men will haul two and a half million limestone blocks weighing a total of six million tons up a building the size of a skyscraper using nothing but human muscle.

On his first day working on the pyramid, one young man has to adapt quickly to a new life in a work gang where intense friendships and hatreds are forged in a feverish furnace of desert heat, brutal humour, backbreaking work, horrific accidents, drink, sex and death. And as the ghosts of dead workmates and visions of Amun Ra the Sun God elbow their way into Makhthon's dreams, something strange is happening just out of sight, on the higher ledges of the pyramid, where the workers are never allowed. Where does the stairway really lead?