March 2011
Manchester | Newcastle | Stockton | Leeds | Plymouth | Coventry | London

Set in a familiar world not so far in the future where people are validated only by their digital ID in the National Identity Database.The system is crumbling, as identity fraud becomes more common. Identities are being accidentally lost, corrupted and deleted. Yet this all-powerful system still decides who you are, even if you are sure you are really someone else.

Five people’s work lives, homes lives, even their sex lives, are thrown into confusion when their official identities vanish with surprising and hilarious results. Another Paradise is a witty and satirical look at a speculative and controversial government policy.

Janet Steel’s vivid production used digitally generated scenery and soundscapes to create a world in which the increasingly unbelievable confusions of identity seem quite plausible, even logical; underlining the distortion of sense and normality that a world entirely reliant on digital identities will rapidly create.