The Natural Cause

Cast: 2f 4-7m plus additional voices

Staging: Various locations

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 96 pages ISBN: 9781788502313Publication Date:
25 Jul 2019
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Cockpit Theatre, London, 1974

The Natural Cause

By Robert Holman

Ebook £4.99£3.99

A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.

Barry and Mary are expecting a child. Barry is a bus conductor, but he'd like to drive the bus one day instead. His mother keeps telling Mary that Barry's not right, and that she should leave him. But Mary chooses to stick with Barry, for better or in fact for worse.

Robert Holman's play The Natural Cause was first performed at the Cockpit Theatre, London, in May 1974. Although written after his earlier play Mud, The Natural Cause was Holman's first full-length play to be staged.

The Natural Cause is also available in the volume Robert Holman Plays: One.

‘When I was a lad, little kiddie, I had this dream. And that was to burn down the world. Smash it up.’

Cast: 2f 4-7m plus additional voices

Staging:Various locations

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,96 pages ISBN: 9781788502313Publication Date:
25 Jul 2019
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Robert Holman:

Jonah and Otto
Robert Holman Plays: One
Bad Weather
Other Worlds
A Breakfast of Eels
Lost
The Lodger
Making Noise Quietly (short play)
German Skerries
Being Friends
Holes in the Skin
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
Today
The Overgrown Path
Mud

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