A PLAY about an unexpected road trip is coming to Dorchester this week before premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Angel Exit Theatre's The Drive recounts an unexpected Nordic road trip which sees two estranged friends thrown together on a tense journey from London to Oslo.

The further Becky and Nat get from home the closer they come to confronting the demons of their shared past.

Spliced through with humour, slick physicality, an original contemporary soundtrack and video projection, The Drive is a show about friendship, grief, the fragility of memory, turning 40 and coming of age in the 1990s.

It also looks at who owns the truth when something can’t be proven.

The Drive is performed by Angel Exit Theatre, which brought audiences The Ballad of Martha Brown, The Secret Garden and Moonfleet.

The play comes to Dorchester as part of a south west preview tour before premiering at Edinburgh Fringe

It will then be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 4 to 19.

Created after two periods of research and development, firstly at the Marine Theatre (Lyme Regis) R&D By the Sea in spring 2016 and then at Lighthouse in spring 2017, The Drive is a contemporary story which represents an exciting new direction and challenge for Angel Exit Theatre.

Director’s Lynne Forbes and Tamsin Fessey said: “We felt there was a need to create a piece of work with two women at its centre.

"A show in which female friendship was at the foreground of the storytelling.

"We were also interested in the reconstructive nature of memory and how in the process of remembering we create our own versions of the stories which shape us. The use of video projection reflects the content stylistically and adds to the idea that our personal narratives are constructed in the same way that a film is edited and framed; a notion that the writing also explores.”

*The Drive – Angel Exit Theatre, Dorchester Corn Exchange, Wednesday July 12, 8pm

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