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The Ceremony: A white wedding. A church wedding. A happy couple...smiling... smiling so hard it hurts. As they make their way down the aisle towards the altar, they falter, tension mounts and each step of this well-worn path presents an unanswered question, an aching doubt.

The ritual's artefacts begin to take on new and sinister meanings. Wedding bells signify warning; the bouquet, a wreath to unkept promises. Old conflicts are replayed in the minds of the 'Happy Couple' and the marriage ceremony, weighed down and corseted by tradition, slowly begins to implode. The wedding march distorts, the flowers droop and the rings won't fit. The vows become nonsense and neither can say 'I do'. Stalemate. As the ceremony's paraphernalia is stripped away, we are left with just the bride and groom, alone on an empty stage. The bare essentials for our Naked Wedding.

The Reception: Here, in this vulnerable state, they are forced to look at themselves, each other and their relationship. In a series of confessions they begin to delve into the female and male psyche. As truths are unveiled, inherited and ingrained patterns of behaviour are exposed. Past moments, personal and historical, are relived, repeated and reviewed; sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes tragic and often ringing bells of recognition. Battles will be fought; will hope be kindled?