A gathering of strangers in the audience quickly turns into a gathering of a community as we file into the haze-filled middle of the Spiegel Zelt in the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Given the title and Wright and Grainger’s other works (Orpheus, Eurydice, Helios) it feels like a communion of souls seeking to connect.

The 12-track album is played through across the three stages in the space. Each track navigating a part of the four stories being told; Gods, Lovers, Sky, and Bridge.
Each of the stories told through an effortless melding of spoken word, live music and song. It’s easy to find yourself transported to the each space and time being shared. Be that with the Gods gathered in a cafe, collars turned up, performing acts of love and kindness, deciding whether or not to continue their reign. The Lovers with their intense romance from adolescence to adulthood and the challenge of being a believer in God or Science. Sky, which sees a widow on the beach at night reminiscing and deciding what to do with her late partners ashes. Or finally to the bridge at dusk where a man decides whether it is better to live or die.

Each story is a powerful reminder that hope is in us all and we have the choice to be “Godly” and recognise the “Gods” in our everyday life who have our back.

Written by Alex Wright and Phil Grainger, who, this season, perform along with Lucy Turner, The Gods, The Gods, The Gods is an electric piece of gig-theatre, with melodies that soar, tenderness that touches your soul, and a sense of hope that takes us on a  journey of both introspection and outward reflection, you certainly are left with the feeling that this, right now, must be heaven.

***** Five-stars! My God, bring everyone you know who may need a reminder that this is what life is about.