by Simon Longman A recurring dream. There are fish, chickens, cows, who all look and sound like people and people who look kind of familiar. They dream about the past mainly, a past that they don’t belong to but a past that wants to belong to them. And then there’s a butcher, killing people. The dream circles around, going back to the start again and again; a dream they can’t escape. (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible, Terrible Past was first commissioned and produced by National Theatre Connections in 2023