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Basement Flat, The

  • Rona Munro
  • Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781848420700

A short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A short and unnerving play about families, property and rampant vegetation.

Fiona and Stephen's tenant has become their landlord and their daughter has taken to living in the overgrown garden, which is creeping into the house as temperatures rise...

Rona Munro's play The Basement Flat was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2009.

The Basement Flat is available in the collection Scottish Shorts.

Premiere Production: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2009.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F