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Rigor Mortis

by Carol Vine

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November 2011 to January 2012 | New Writing Season
"And each nail driving me closer to the end. And my heart breaking. And I don't tell her that either."
The World Premiere as part of The Papatango New Writing Festival 2011
13 - 18 Dec 2011
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Martin returns to confront his past and the estranged relationship with his daughter Layla in an ugly coastal town as he seeks meaning and redemption.

About The Play

About The Play

After years of absence, Martin returns, a middle-aged, quietly broken man, to visit his parents in the house he grew up in. The fraught relations between Martin and Layla, the daughter he abandoned many years before, echo Martin’s conflicted history with his own past, which he must now confront – along with the childhood event that shaped the course of his life. In this ugly coastal town, through a bitterly cold spring, extraordinary things happen to normal people as they struggle to find meaning and redemption in their lives.

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Cast

Crew

Director

Kate Budgen

Producer

Presented the Papatango New Writing Festival in partnership with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre

Design

Victoria Smart

Lighting

Rob Casey

Sound

Edward Lewis

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