Book description
Morna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time
drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the
twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother,
Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his wife. The owner of a
floor-tiling company, with two grown-up children, he's proud of his
hard-won achievements since moving west. Between them, they have
differing memories of their upbringing and their parents and definite
opinions about each other. But these are left unsaid because Morna and
Athol haven't spoken a word to each other in fourteen years . . . When
Morna's son Joshua travels to see his uncle, he sets off a remarkable
and life-changing series of events. A Slow Air by David Harrower
premiered at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in April 2011, and transferred
to the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
David Harrower's plays include Knives in Hens, Kill the Old, Torture
Their Young and Dark Earth (Traverse), Presence (Royal Court) The
Chrysalids (NT Connections), Blackbird (Edinburgh International
Festival; West End), A Slow Air (Tron Theatre, Glasgow). Adaptations
include Buchner's Woyzeck (Edinburgh Lyceum), Pirandello's Six
Characters in Search of an Author (Young Vic), Chekhov's Ivanov and
Horvath's Tales from the Vienna Woods (National Theatre), Schiller's
Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland), and Brecht's The Good Soul
of Szechuan and Gogol's The Government Inspector (Young Vic).
