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Fram
Reliance on devices like the photograph and slide
will lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide.
We must keep on challenging language to engage
with all we suffer from in this new modern age.
This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot for the North Pole in the 1890s. Though incompatible, they share a bear fur sleeping-bag through the long winter. Nansen, still haunted by Johansen's ghost is appointed to the League of Nations. As a figurehead of Russian famine relief in 1922, he conducts the first celebrity campaign, searching for means, however shocking, to make people care.
Fram premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.
will lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide.
We must keep on challenging language to engage
with all we suffer from in this new modern age.
This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot for the North Pole in the 1890s. Though incompatible, they share a bear fur sleeping-bag through the long winter. Nansen, still haunted by Johansen's ghost is appointed to the League of Nations. As a figurehead of Russian famine relief in 1922, he conducts the first celebrity campaign, searching for means, however shocking, to make people care.
Fram premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.
112 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2008
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January 2, 2010
A fantastic play!! Tony Harrison believes completely in 'public poetry' that it's for the masses! The play is transcribed completely in rhymed verse and is laid out almost like a Herald. 3 different stories all revolving on simple themes, including the question
-Is theatre or other forms of art loosing sway in encouraging people into charitable action?
-How far can Art really go?
-We must huddle together if we are to survive at all.
Fantastic, fantastic play. Have a read.
-Is theatre or other forms of art loosing sway in encouraging people into charitable action?
-How far can Art really go?
-We must huddle together if we are to survive at all.
Fantastic, fantastic play. Have a read.
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