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The Approach (NHB Modern Plays)

Mark O'Rowe

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

Listen carefully…
Three women.
Three conversations.
As the details of what they share begin to diverge, we realise that a subtle game of survival is being played.
Both psychological puzzle and quietly devastating tragedy, Mark O'Rowe's The Approach explores the inner lives of Anna, Cora and Denise as they desperately try to make sense of their world. It premiered at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in 2018, in a production by Landmark Productions.

Available since: 02/02/2018.

Print length: 88 pages.

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