Analogue (theatre company)

As the artist director Liam Jarvis stated in a TotalTheatre article about their second devised work entitled Beachy Head, "Our debut production, Mile End, began life as an investigation into the tragic death of an innocent commuter, Christophe Duclos, who in 2002 was pushed in front of a tube train in the rush hour at Mile End Station by Stephen Soans-Wade.

Stephen, from Poplar, East London, had tried to get himself sectioned under the Mental Health Act, but psychiatrists had decided that whilst he had displayed some abnormal and antisocial traits, they were not sufficient to have him detained.

In an article about the reasons behind the plays creation, the artistic director Liam Jarvis wrote "[Beachy Head] began life as a new photograph we saw of a solitary telephone box, installed on the cliff tops in 1976 alongside a sign for the Samaritans that reads "ALWAYS THERE DAY OR NIGHT".

"[2] 2401 Objects, tells the story of the life of Henry Molaison, who underwent an experimental surgery on 1 September 1953 to attempt to rid himself of his increasingly devastating effects of frequent blackouts and seizures that came with his Epilepsy.

When he finds himself trapped within a Dubai labour camp, with his passport and wages withheld from him, he hides in the wheel well of a plane bound for the UK, in a bid for a better life.".

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The phone box and accompanying sign
The public phone box and accompanying Samaritans sign that inspired Beachy Head