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Death of Long Pig

Nigel Planer
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  • ISBN 9781848420410
  • Weight: 80g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jul 2009
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.

'Long pig: A white man to be eaten'

Deep in the Polynesian islands of the Pacific Ocean, hungry spirits circle the homes of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and artist Paul Gaugin, who lived and died on the islands only a few years apart.

Stevenson has spent thirty years in rigorous combat with the Grim Reaper, but is he finally ready to concede defeat? Gauguin has bought rum, arsenic and morphine for his suicide cocktail and is certain he's not long for this world, but he'll be damned if they give him a Catholic burial in consecrated ground.

As their final hours approach, they face the eternal question: is it how we prepare for death that really governs the way we live?

Nigel Planer's play Death of Long Pig was first staged at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2009.
About Nigel Planer
NIGEL PLANER is most famous as the drippy hippie, Neil, in The Young Ones and as one of the original members of The Comic Strip. As an actor he has played leads in many West End musicals such as Chicago, We Will Rock You and Wicked and has just taken over the role of Michael Ball's husband in Hairspray. As Nicholas Craig, he wrote the spoof autobiography, I, an Actor - Another Great Actor Explores Himself. His previous play, On the Ceiling transferred from Birmingham to the West End and was published by NHB.

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