Fram

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Theatre, Playwriting, Performing Arts, Drama
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Author: Tony Harrison ISBN: 9780571262649
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: July 31, 2014
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: Tony Harrison
ISBN: 9780571262649
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: July 31, 2014
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English

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.

Tony Harrison's major new work for the theatre, Fram, premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.

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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.

Tony Harrison's major new work for the theatre, Fram, premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.

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