The Overgrown Path

Cast: 3f 3m plus several children

Staging: Several locations (mostly exterior)

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

Ebook, 90 pages ISBN: 9781788502351Publication Date:
25 Jul 2019
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Royal Court Theatre, London, 1985

The Overgrown Path

By Robert Holman

Ebook £4.99£3.99

Nicholas Marks, an aspiring academic from Yorkshire, arrives on the Greek island of Tinos to interview reclusive scientist Daniel Howarth about his work on the atomic bomb. But as he tries to tease apart fact and fantasy, science and mythology, chance and destiny, Nicholas discovers a surprising truth about himself.

Robert Holman's play The Overgrown Path is about history, and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 1985.

The Overgrown Path is also available in the volume Robert Holman Plays: One.

'History is not the study of facts. It is the study of ourselves. Of our stories. The stories we tell each other.'

Cast: 3f 3m plus several children

Staging:Several locations (mostly exterior)

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

Ebook,90 pages ISBN: 9781788502351Publication Date:
25 Jul 2019
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Robert Holman:

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

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