OVERVIEW
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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.
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Play Type
Plays General
Number Of Acts
Full-Length
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Cast Size Male
3
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Cast Size Female
1
Cast Notes
Cast doubling is possible.
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