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Among Unbroken Hearts

By Henry Adam

A drug-taking hard man from the city returns home to the Highlands to try to recapture the innocence of his youth.

Joint winner of the 2002 Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre

Ray got away from the far north of Scotland years ago. Went south. Found a new way to live. Now, with his mate from the city in tow, he returns to where it all began, and to the memory of a time when life still kept its promises.

'A truly impressive Traverse debut from a dramatist full of skill and courage, and that deep sense of dramatic structure that some writers struggle a whole lifetime to learn' Scotsman

'A beautiful, haunting play' Telegraph

First Staged: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2000; Bush Theatre, London, 2001
Cast: 1f 3m

£ 8.999781854596413 - PB