Iron
Published on 31. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-85459-732-8 (ISBN)
Description
Royal Court opening for last summer's Edinburgh Festival success: a tough new play set in a women's prison by 'one of Scotland's brightest dramatists' (The Times) Fay murdered her husband with a kitchen knife 15 years ago and got a life sentence. Now her 25-year-old daughter, Josie, who hasn't seen her mother since, comes to visit her and discover why she can remember nothing that occurred before that awful evening.
Reviews / Votes
'Rona Munro's quietly impressive play seems simple enough on the surface, but, like her characters, it has hidden depths. It is a love story about how women love men unwisely and too well, and about the painful, twisted, sacred love between mothers and daughters' Guardian 'An exceptionally gripping and deeply moving play... This is psychological drama at its best - tense, harrowing, yet also powered by an unsentimental fund of compassion. In its later stages, sniffs and sobs of emotion could be heard among the audience... Munro never sounds a false note' Daily TelegraphMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
Weight
128 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-732-8 (9781854597328)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Person
Rona Munro has been writing plays and films since 1982. She won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award for Bold Girls in 1991 and the Peggy Ramsay Award for The Maiden Stone in 1995. Your Turn to Clean the Stair was staged by the Traverse in 1992. She also wrote the screenplay for Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird.