Fugue
First Staged:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1983

Fugue

By Rona Munro

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.

Press Quotes

'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'

The Stage

Also by Rona Munro:

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

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