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Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth Long Time Dead by Rona Munro |
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Traverse Festival Ticket Offer Buy tickets for any 4 productions taking place in the Traverse programme between Thu 2 - Fri 10 August and get the cheapest ticket free! Click here to get full details. To buy tickets for Long Time Dead online (no booking fee), click here. STOP PRESS "Miriam Buether's set is as dazzling as Chahine Yavroyan's gorgeous lighting, and the performances, particularly by Garry Cooper as the quietly obsessed Grizzly, are possessed with an infectious warmth beyond their surface grit... Munro has served up a slice of real humanity with all its flaws intact en route to healing." (The Herald) Click here to read the full review. "the quality of the banter throughout the play is superb, full of post-modern trivia on the surface, timeless wisdom beneath; and Garry Cooper, Lesley Hart, Jon Foster and Jan Pearson turn in four memorable performances, in a virtuoso display of acting that, for once, finds a play worthy of the effort." (The Scotsman) Click here to read the full review on The Scotsman website. "Munro's richly pleasurable play is not just about the men and women who choose to slog their way up great lumps of rock and ice. It is also a subtle ode to friendship, and an exhilarating treatise on risk, obsession and death" (The Guardian) Click here to read the full Guardian review". “i reckon this is the worst way to die. Get a kid, just a little kid, tell them they’re going to die, wait till they’re old enough to understand it then tell them, let it sink in, then give them sixty or seventy years to think about it and watch it coming’” “yeah, you’re right. That’s the worst. We’re not going to go like that, are we?” “we’re not living like that” 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. The prestigious partnership of Paines Plough and the Drum Theatre Plymouth returns to present Rona Munro’s thrilling story of friendship, adventure and chasing ghosts. Company Websites www.painesplough.com www.theatreroyal.com Director Roxana Silbert Designer Miriam Buether Lighting Designer Chahine Yavroyan Movement Director Struan Leslie Composer Ben Park Cast Garry Cooper, Jon Foster, Lesley Hart, Jan Pearson Running Time 2 hours 20 minutes with one interval |
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(The Guardian on Long Time Dead) Silbert’s direction is precise, the four actors work with delicacy and generous insight, a harmony of speech, body and soul. |
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