Show 920 – Knocking on Heaven’s Door – 29th January – Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Purgatory

In this epic, multi-protagonist tale, we hear of six people trapped in purgatory: Emmy-Lou and Tracy, sisters who ran the Bluebird cafe in Nashville whose love for each other was as shallow as their jealousy was deep; Wyatt W Slenderman, a small-time conman who never got over the death of his wife; Andrew O’Neil, great great grand child of famous bar-owner Waxy, and who was the biggest swindler Wall Street has ever known; and finally Charles and Margaret Percival who loved each other into a stabby death.

Each must come to terms with the wrongs they had committed and before they will be allowed to either ascend to heaven or fall to hell…