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Fugue
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
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First Staged:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1983

Fugue

By Rona Munro
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
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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.

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'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'

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Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
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Also by Rona Munro:

The James Plays
Mary Barton
Mary
The Maiden Stone
The Last Witch
Pandas
Iron
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The House of Bernarda Alba
Bold Girls
James II: Day of the Innocents
James III: The True Mirror
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Long Time Dead
The Basement Flat
James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock
Scuttlers
Your Turn to Clean the Stair
The Astronaut's Chair
James IV: Queen of the Fight
Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
Little Eagles
Gilt
James V: Katherine
The Indian Boy
Strawberries in January
Scottish Shorts
Saturday at the Commodore

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