It first appeared at the 2002 festival, where it won a Fringe First Award for 'innovation in theatre and outstanding new production'.
[2] The play centers on the afterlives of four characters who, finding themselves in a mysterious 'Void', are informed by the equally enigmatic Guide that they must choose one memory from their lives in which to spend eternity.
Although heralded at the time as new, the premise of the play is in fact quite similar to that of Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda's 1998 film 'After Life', in which the concept was less stylized.
Alex and Nia are told to have died from smoke inhalation, by a fire while they slept.
It is also confirmed, while not explicitly mentioned what illness within the play, that the character of Sophie suffers from an STD given to her by Mr Gray, the cause of her death, in an interview with one of the writers, Neil Monaghan, in March 2003.