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Description for Long Time Dead
Paperback. A play about an ill-assorted trio (two men and one woman) and their near-fatal obsession with mountaineering. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers.
Grizzly, Dog and Gnome live to climb mountains. They're good at it. They're not looking for death. They love what they do and they do it to the limit. But they're climbing up to places where death is only one mistake away.
Suffused with black humour, Rona Munro's play Long Time Dead is an expedition into ghosts frozen in time, immediate bonds of camaraderie and horizons yet to be discovered.
Long Time Dead was first performed by Paines Plough at The Drum, ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854599728
SKU
V9781854599728
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About Rona Munro
Rona Munro is a writer who has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television. Her plays include: James V: Katherine (Raw Material and Capital Theatres tour, 2024); Mary (Hampstead Theatre, 2022); James IV: Queen of the Fight (National Theatre of Scotland, 2022); a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (UK tour, 2019); a stage adaptation of Louis ... Read more
Reviews for Long Time Dead
'Captures all the absurd romance of climbing and the mad buggers who do it... a knotty and often thrilling drama which not only succeeds in recreating some of the tingling physical sense of climbing, but which neatly avoids the easy metaphors about living life to the full'
Guardian
'A searching, moving, healing play'
Sunday Times
'A ... Read more
Guardian
'A searching, moving, healing play'
Sunday Times
'A ... Read more