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Highlights
When and where?
October 18 - 23 (previews only), October 25 - November 23 at Hampstead Theatre
Time Out says
Set in the mid-1970s, Richard Bean's new play 'Reykjavik' blends workplace drama with a touch of folklore storytelling.
In freezing weather off the coast of Iceland, the sidewinder Graham Greene ices up, heels over, and sinks in seconds, taking fifteen of her crew with her. Such are the realities of the brutal world of trawler fishing. On impulse, despised trawler-owner Donald Claxton flies to Reykjavik to see the survivors, setting in train an evening of drinking, horseplay, romance and story-telling that will change all their lives forever.
"For those in Peril on the Sea’ makes dying at sea sound like something noble, and patriotic. Whereas their husband, son or father has died for one half of a fish and chip supper…"
Need to know
Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage
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