CROW COMA

Crow Coma is the debut performance from Know Promises Theatre Collective, a haunting and poetic exploration of what it means to linger on the threshold between life and death. Inspired by the story of a man left in a coma after a car crash, the piece enters the dreamlike space of unconsciousness, where memory, imagination, and reality flow into one another. Here, in this suspended state, the familiar rules of time begin to collapse. The man is drawn through fragments of childhood, half-forgotten faces, fleeting moments of joy, and unresolved echoes of grief. He witnesses the fragile threads that have shaped his life, while visions of possible futures appear and dissolve before him. In this liminal world, nothing is fixed — everything exists in flux, charged with both dread and wonder.

Yet always, in the midst of this shifting landscape, a Crow returns. Sometimes distant, sometimes close, the Crow lingers like a riddle that refuses to be solved. Is it a companion, a warning, a memory made flesh? Is it real, imagined, or something beyond either? The question of its meaning hangs in the air, unsettling and unanswerable.

Crow Coma does not offer certainty, but rather a meditation on mortality, presence, and the choices that define us. It is a work of theatre that moves fluidly between the personal and the universal — between the private territory of one man’s unconscious and the shared human experience of love, loss, and the inevitability of letting go.