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This is a story about pirates. When Kay, an idealistic pirate enthusiast, convinces his best friend Pip to stowaway on a visiting pirate ship called the Icarus, they are pulled into a world full of betrayal, bravado and broken promises. With piracy, politics and a frankly unrealistic amount of queer characters, Icarus Rising follows the crew of the Icarus and their rivals on the Hyacinth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first New York International Fringe Festival in 1997.

Ever wondered what goes through the mind of some men and why we sometimes do the things we do? Described as ‘Adrian Mole’ meets ‘Bridget Jones’, ‘The Icarus Complex’ is a love, sorry and goodbye letter to that ‘one, or those who got away’ from the perspective of a black male trying to navigate life in the UK and is equally a candid, reflective, humorous, but undoubtedly honest, heartbreaking and never before told account about the high and lows of relationships, suppressing / dealing with emotion and the pitfalls of having too much pride.

Ever wondered what goes through the mind of some men and why we sometimes do the things we do? Described as ‘Adrian Mole’ meets ‘Bridget Jones’, ‘The Icarus Complex’ is a love, sorry and goodbye letter to that ‘one, or those who got away’ from the perspective of a black male trying to navigate life in the UK and is equally a candid, reflective, humorous, but undoubtedly honest, heartbreaking and never before told account about the high and lows of relationships, suppressing / dealing with emotion and the pitfalls of having too much pride.