![]() ![]() Touching the Void is at Bristol Old Vic until 6 October. ![]() ![]() The obstacle of reaching the heights at the start of a new theatre era has been triumphantly surmounted. Touching the Void Kindle Edition by Joe Simpson (Author), Tony Colwell (Editor), & 1 more Format: Kindle Edition 4,029 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.69 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. ![]() Patrick McNamee wittily portrays Richard, a gauche student trekker who, exemplifying Greig’s skill in finding humour amid the horror, dreams of writing a rock-climbing novel called Avoiding the Touch. Fiona Hampton, as Joe’s sister, brings a powerfully corrective female and non-climber’s perspective to a tale of blokes on ropes. As his fellow mountaineer, Edward Hayter radiates the moral anguish of having to be willing to kill a friend to live. Josh Williams convincingly plays Joe at several levels of consciousness. The one dubious choice is two singing sequences that make this an unusually literal example of a rock musical. Photograph: Geraint LewisĪnother key creative decision is that an autobiographical story of individual endurance is never a monologue for more than a few moments, with hallucination and memory keeping the stage busy. Fiona Hampton in Touching the Void, designed by Ti Green. ![]()
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