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Fugue

  • Rona Munro
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9781854592484

A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

Kay, a 24-year-old secretary, encounters her alter ego as she suffers an emotional breakdown in the Grampian Hills.

Rona Munro's play Fugue was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in April 1983.

REVIEWS:

"Set in an isolated Scottish cottage and then a psychiatric ward, the play works both as a traditional horror story and as a psychological study of a woman falling apart."

 The Stage

Premiere Production: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1983.
  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, All Female