we were promised honey!

The show that we’re about to do is a story of the future. The story we’re going to tell is the story of us. I’m going to tell you this now: it doesn’t have a happy end.

A lone performer tells the story of the future of the audience; what’s going to happen to them in the decades, centuries, millenia after the end of this show. It’s the story of a baby born in a lighthouse, of someone on fire in the middle of the desert, of two lovers reunited in a flooded city, of a spaceship on the edge of a black hole.

Everything has already been decided. This is the story of the end.

From the makers of Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist and The Accident Did Not Take Place comes an act of communal storytelling. A hopeful, hopeless prophecy for earth and humankind. A story of us, our future, of paradise and how we get there in the end.

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????? ‘In an aerial feat of storytelling Sam sets the audience down in the here and now, armed with hope on the brink of sure disaster’ Katie Hawthorne, The Scotsman

????? ‘It’s an apocalyptic, strange hour of theatre that makes you feel grateful to be alive, grateful to be part of a communal gathering of people, even as it erodes the very ground you’re standing on’ Alice Saville, The Financial Times

?WINNER: Total Theatre Award 2017

NOMINEE: Total Theatre Award 2019

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YESYESNONO is artist Sam Ward and producer Rhian Davies. We’ve shown work across the country at spaces including HOME, Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Soho Theatre, Theatre Deli, The Bike Shed Theatre, The Wardrobe Theatre, The Royal Exchange and Camden People’s Theatre. In 2017 we won the Total Theatre Award for Best Emerging Company for our debut show ‘Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist’. In 2019 we were nominated for the Total Theatre Award for Innovation for ‘the accident did not take place’. In 2022 we were a finalist for the OffWestEnd Award for Best Production for ‘we were promised honey!’