OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Howard Barker 

• Synopsis

  The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo features two characters obsessed with the idea and anticipation of sex with each other. The man is old and desiccated, the woman only 17, and both are blind. She appears first, dressed in bridal clothes and tapping her way with a cane she soon breaks and throws away. He arrives in a rumpled black suit, with two white sticks he also discards. They begin a long conversation, touching on their lack of sight and the relationship, mostly sexual, to come.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  1

• Female

  1

• Total

  2

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  30 July 2001

• Production Notes

  produced in association with Lurking Truth.

• Producer

  Produced by Iomha Ildanach

• Original Venue

  Project Arts Centre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme. Additional information was supplied by a member of Íomhá Ildánach.