Steve Hennessy's play, Stairway to Heaven, is set during the building of Cheops’ Pyramid in Egypt circa 2,700 B.C. It plays in June and July at the Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, London.

A hundred thousand men will haul two and a half million limestone blocks weighing a total of six million tons up a building the size of a skyscraper using nothing but human muscle.  

On his first day working on the pyramid, one young man has to adapt quickly to a new life in a work gang where intense friendships and hatreds are forged in a feverish furnace of desert heat, brutal humour, backbreaking work, horrific accidents, drink, sex and death.

And as the ghosts of dead workmates and visions of Amun Ra the Sun God elbow their way into Makhthon’s dreams, something strange is happening just out of sight, on the higher ledges of the pyramid, where the workers are never allowed.

Where does the stairway really lead?

Performances are Tuesday, June 15 - Sat,  July 10 (No perfs Sunday or Monday) at The Blue Elephant Theatre 59a Bethwin Road, Camberwell, London

For tickets call 0207 701 0100 or visit:
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