The play

The multidimensional nature of I Can See What The Dark Looks Like emphasises healing and transformation. The play creates “feeling spaces” and asks what it truly means to be human.

Rather than staying at the level of labels – colour, race, religion, gender, age, ability – it invites audiences to meet each other in compassion, empathy, appreciation and joy. From that place, healing begins to happen naturally.

Why this work?

I Can See What The Dark Looks Like asks what happens when we honour the emotional truth underneath our experiences.

The play links audience and performers not by matching stories, but by the feelings those stories stir – grief, joy, tenderness, shock, recognition. It moves beyond surface differences to reveal the beauty we share: compassion, joy, love, empathy, understanding, patience and tolerance. Our beauty belongs to us; it’s the damage that is collateral.

There is a saying: “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” It is not only how we see ourselves, but how we view the events and circumstances we pass through.

At the centre of suffering, pain and loss, this work searches for that glimmer Naz calls collateral beauty.