History Has No Safe Word
Sat 21 Nov
|Crediton Arts Centre
Masterful stagecraft, immersive and engaging throughout. A highly accomplished piece of writing and performance, a visceral portrayal of life in Pompeii on the eve of the infamous Vesuvian eruption in 79 CE. Jonathan Brown returns with this fascinating historical drama.
Time & Location
21 Nov 2026, 19:30 – 21:30
Crediton Arts Centre, East St, Crediton EX17 3AX, UK
About the event
Time comes for us all…
Professor Nathan Zangari is fading away.
Once voted the sexiest professor on BBC2’s Open University, his highly celebrated archeo-linguistics paper on “Graffiti, Women and the Walls of Pompeii” is now but a distant memory.
Now, he can’t sleep, he can’t get published, and… he can’t get laid.
At the sleep-study clinic that he’s enrolled at, they observe him talking in his sleep, seemingly an intermediary for a long-forgotten Pompeian girl.
When overambitious student, Callie, offers to capture his mumblings, they both find themselves sucked into the very real lives of those on the edge of destruction, some 2000 years ago.