Duration: Approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes; with a 20-minute interval.
A powerful psychological drama.
Emotionally honest and socially resonant, it transcends the melodramatic cliches of prison drama to explore the relationship between a mother and daughter and the corrosive nature of the penal system.
This production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Iron is a two-act play, set in a women’s prison, with a cast of four.
Josie is 25 and visiting her mother, Fay, for the first time in 15 years. She’s seeking answers to events that occurred when she was 10. Fay is now 45 and has served 15 years of a life sentence for murder. She’s trying to forget those same events Josie is seeking answers to.
This is a powerful psychological drama between mother and daughter regarding their respective lives back then to now, and how that event impacted on both of them – with Josie’s upbringing, prison has shaped Fay’s life with her daily encounters with two of her prison guards: George and Sheila, who are drawn into the encounter, with their own views on the realities of prison life, prisoners and families – both their own and the prisoners’.
There will be some extremely intense and disturbing scenes which highlight the realities of prison life for those who visit the prisoners, the prisoners themselves, and the warders.
Emotionally honest and socially resonant, it transcends the melodramatic cliches of prison drama to explore the relationship between a mother and daughter and the corrosive nature of the penal system.
Widely recognised as a leading Scottish prison drama, Iron is a dark psychological examination of criminality and its effect on familial bonds.
Rona Munro has written a desolate drama about life behind prison walls and of the doleful existence of those who have to inhabit them.
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Iron
Iron by Rona Munro does not have a specific diversity message within the script, although the cast can be drawn from any ethnic background. The story itself primarily relates to the relationship between mother and daughter – whereby an age requirement is needed.
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