High above a precipice, Nick and Flora enter the retreat. As screeching seagulls and howling winds threaten to ruin their romantic break from city life, nothing can prepare them for the earth-shattering revelations of a mysterious visitor. Forced into a brutal game of cat and mouse, Flora realises that this lonely seaside town holds the key to Nick’s chilling past. Can they survive the terrifying truth that emerges, or will it push them over the edge?

From award-winning Nottingham New Theatre comes The Retreat, a psychological thriller that takes you on a journey into the darkest recesses of human nature. The Retreat is a tense and compelling piece of new writing that gives a starkly gritty and character driven insight into the devastating consequences of an isolated upbringing and dead end community where delinquent youth culture reigns and ‘tomorrow’ is a myth. The performance probes the dark corners of human nature and modern relationships and the destruction that a reckless past can inflict on the present and on the future.

 

Video of Nottingham New Theatre's past production Rhinoceros: