She’s got the time, the curiosity, the resources – and a thirst for true crime. Meet AKI BROWNE – online sleuth like no other…

A one–act play, featuring the hunt for a real–life bogeyman/racist caricature, this is an absurd journey into the obsessive world of a digital detective.

In the wake of the reappearance of Madeleine McCann and the Nicola Bulley tragedy, it seems something inside of us loves to dig for clues. But at what cost?

Romantic paranoia, surrealism, possession, human frailty, and the desperately real need for personal reinvention. It’s all in the being.

People in dreams are closer than we think.

“Being Purple Aki is a supercharged drama of love, pursuit, and that idea which our culture has done its best to empty of meaning, namely, ‘identity’; Collings restores meaning, fiercely, wisely, and above all, with heart. It made me think of an ultra–concentrated Moby Dick. The rendering of voices is magnificent and right: this is how the real–world sounds! Unlike most writers in this land, Austin Collings is not in breach of the Weeds Act (1959).’ – Michael Nath (author of The Treatment).

“A bombardment of barbed wire ideas, crackpot and profound, all stirred up in a gooey mess of ectoplasm, leaving us disturbed and reassured: how’s that possible? In short, all that Art should ever be, always.” – Mark Hodkinson (author of No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy).