Echo, Susan Eva Haar’s timely and taut psychological thriller examining the ethics of reproductive technology, comes to London’s King’s Head Theatre in a premiere production directed by Abigail Zealey Bess.
“I wasn’t born. I was made.”
At a secluded B&B in upstate New York, a couple arrives to celebrate their tenth anniversary. The room is romantic, garish, off-kilter.
So is she. Unstable, sensual, unpredictable—she wants something dangerous. He’s desperate to please her. But as champagne flows and erotic games escalate, the night spirals into something darker, more surreal… until a baby, a blade, and a secret crack everything open.
Twenty years later, another couple returns to the same room to scatter her mother’s ashes. But something lingers in the wallpaper, in the fan’s rhythmic hum, in the echoes of the past. She’s never been here before, at least not this version of her…
In this “downright compelling” (Scotsman) psychological thriller starring Amara Okereke and Kyle Rowe, the ethics of reproductive technology, the performance of intimacy, and the terrifying beauty of being made are thrust under the microscope for all to see.
Following the 2pm matinee on Sunday 20 July 2025, I’ll chair a discussion with Echo writer Susan Eve Haar and director Abigail Zealey Bess about bringing the story’s thrills and chills to the stage.