Limbo: a redemptive reflection

Andrew Bailey is a geek with a massive moral dilemma.  Somewhere deep inside he doesn’t feel worthy of the earthly life he’s been granted.  An adolescent urge to grab a girl’s tits leads him to believe he’s a potential rapist, and thus the self-loathing begins.  His tortured psyche posits that somebody else could make much better use of his life force, and so he attempts to kill himself.  This is how Limbo begins.

Bailey recounts the details of his teenage suicide attempt and his subsequent psychiatric ‘care’ with candor and wit.  Over the course of his hour-long monologue, Bailey is frequently possessed by evil spirits, this being the result of having asked God to take his life and give it to someone more worthy.  These spirits however, seem to have less purpose than Bailey himself, and when they do offer a path forward, it’s into even darker territory than Bailey himself conjures.

When he’s finally diagnosed with OCD with a religious/moral bent, Bailey is doing a stint at the local church as a janitor of sorts, whose duties include keeping the junkies and whores at a safe distance from the house of worship.  When a young man overdoses behind the old church, Bailey succeeds in convincing himself that he’s the one who killed him.  He’s so guilt-ridden he oughta be Jewish!

Taken to delightful extremes, the machinations of the human conscience are the grist that feeds Bailey’s finely honed theatrical mill.  In go all the moral dilemmas, suffering and hypocrisy and out comes a heart-felt, funny, redemptive reflection on the human condition.

Limbo is on as part of this year's Fringe Festival. For more information go here.