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Iron - Softcover

Book 20 of 177: NHB Modern Plays

Munro-rona

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9781854597328: Iron

Synopsis

Fay is fifteen years into a life sentence for murdering her husband. Her now grown-up daughter, Josie visits her for the first time, and the two women begin to close the gap between them, with Fay helping Josie to remember her life before Fay was sent down. But a thoughtless attempt by Josie to smuggle in some tranquilizers results in a three-month ban on visits, threatening to destroy the fragile reconciliation.

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About the Author

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.

Review

'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 Telegraph

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