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Cain and Abel, two brothers grown up in the English countryside have both migrated to London. Cain, a struggling artist and hospitality worker is trying to reconnect with Abel who has class hopped into the middle classes, reaching for more. The brothers take a trip away from the city, to try and reconnect and find some childhood joy in watching the sun rise over the treetops of a large forest. Becoming separated, a series of encounters occur that have Cain questioning how much of our fate is written for us, and how much we can really change the script.
Starring Nicholas Alder and Luka Knight & written by Nicholas Alder and Francis de Lima, Greater Than I Can Bear considers questions of predetermined fates through the lens of class: are we truly free or have the conditions of our lives been decided long before we drew our first breath? Thinking through contemporary issues through recontextualizations, the play melts together popular culture, biblical mythology, and political theory. Irreverent, yet deeply serious, it attempts to highlight the absurdity, and the deep divides in the modern-day class experience: how do we perceive our enemy? The oppressor and the oppressed? How do we direct our anger and to what ends? How do we love our siblings, while questioning if they are willing and able to take everything from us?