The performance will deal directly or indirectly with ideas of:
alignment and disalignment of places, issues of freedom of speech and expression and rise and fall of empires.
The performance will address the tensions brought about by huge events in history to ordinary people who happen to be there. The central figure is the daughter of the chief librarian, who wants to live an ordinary simple life but events won't let her. In the ebb and flow of history the times of cultural flourishing are superseded by times of oppression and darkness. It seems that the great library was burnt more than once.
“The loss of the ancient world’s single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of  Alexandria, has been lamented for ages. But how and why it was lost is still a mystery. The mystery exists not for lack of suspects but from an excess of them.” The Burning of the Library of Alexandria (Chesser P.,Ó ODU, 2006)