OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Ben Hennessy 

• Synopsis

  Climb is based on three Mountain stories – Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void – an incredible, contemporary, survival story set in the Peruvian Andes, George Mallory’s Everest expeditions in the early 1920’s and his letters to his wife Ruth – Mallory was one of the most extraordinary men of the 20th Century – disappearing in the high mists on Everest in 1924 – his body only found in 1999 and Thomas Burnett and his publication – The Sacred Theory of the Earth in 1684 which looked at the origins of mountains.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

• Cast Size Male

  3

• Cast Size Female

  1

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling is possible.

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

• Date of First Production

• Producer

  Presented by Red Kettle Theatre Company

• Original Venue

  Garter Lane Arts Centre
  

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