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:

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

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