Marathon
By (Author) Edoardo Erba
Translated by Colin Teevan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Modern Plays
23rd November 1999
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
852.914
Paperback
64
Night-time. A country lane. Two men training run into their past and into their future. A beautifully simple exploration of what it means to be alive.
This extraordinary hour of theatre where two actors run and perform, perform and run without a break is absolutely not to be missed. An unprecedented piece of theatre * La Repubblica, Italy *
Colin Teevan is a celebrated playwright, translator and writer for screen. His work has been produced by many leading theatres including the National, the Young Vic, the Soho Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland. Colin's 2009 play, The Lion of Kabul, was produced as part of the Tricycle Theatre's Great Game festival on Afghanistan and was hailed as 'an inspirational highlight of the year' by The Independent. In the same year, he adapted Franz Kafka's Report to An Academy for the Young Vic, where it appeared as the critically-acclaimed play, Kafka's Monkey, as well as reviving the National Theatre of Scotland's production of his new version of Peer Gynt at The Barbican and, subsequently, on tour. In 2010 Kafka's Monkey was revived by The Young Vic at the Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris and The Great Game was revived by the Tricycle for an American tour. In 2011 Colin wrote an episode of the ITV drama Vera starring Brenda Blethyn and a two-part episode of ITV/RTE crime drama Single Handed. Colin was commissioned to write an original play There Was A Man, There Was No Man for the Tricycle as part of their 2012 season of plays entitled 'The Bomb'.