The newspaper photograph shows Jack Fawcett, towards the left, Raleigh Rimmel towards the right, at Dead Horse Camp, May, 1925. This was five weeks into their journey and the last photograph of them taken before they went missing. Percy Fawcett took the photograph.…

The play concerns the last expedition of Colonel Percy Fawcett who, alongside his son, Jack, and Jack’s boyhood friend, Raleigh Rimmel, vanished in the jungles of the Amazon in 1925 while searching for “The Lost City of Z” that Fawcett was convinced existed.

Mystic, scholar, legendary explorer of South America, Fawcett was a complex man whose obsession proved destructive. The play offers an understanding of events, based on documentary evidence, of what compelled Percy Fawcett on this…