The cosmonaut's last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union
By: David Greig
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: Premiered in Bath in 1999, this is an elusive, enchanting play about disconnection in which everything is intricately connected. Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO researcher and an Edinburgh speech therapist in search of her missing husband are brought together through an extraordinary thread of connections, which bring us into contact with both the intimate and the epic. As messages echo unheard between earth and sky the play explores the incessant search for harmony and peace within all of us.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 2002.