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A play about living and dying.

A baby ponders if there is life beyond the womb. A small boy learns to shudder as he calmly follows the hypnotic aura of a beautiful woman - the flesh of her back riddled with serpents. An old woman stands on the precipice of life - longing to fall.

Set against a soundscape of screams and whispers, echoes and breath, five characters walk through the valley of the shadow of darkness. Transient images, unsettling stories and the haunting voices of clarinets conjure up the carnival of Death.

Embracing the different female characters of Death in various traditions, Pushing Daisies delved into the mystery, exhilaration, release and fear that facing death brings to us all.

Voices of different cultures, experiences and ages are heard, and death comes closer to us all. There is a theory that the number of people alive on planet Earth today is the same as the number of people who have died since the beginning of humankind as we know it. Some take comfort that so many have gone before - others remain terrified of the unknown...

Death - beautiful, frightening, funny - and on its way.

We have all imagined - but not one of us knows. We have all conjectured - but not one of us has proof. Some go and return - most go.