{"product_id":"death-of-long-pig","title":"Death of Long Pig","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Long pig: A white man to be eaten'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeep 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStevenson 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs their final hours approach, they face the eternal question: is it how we prepare for death that really governs the way we live?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNigel Planer's play \u003cem\u003eDeath of Long Pig\u003c\/em\u003e was first staged at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248702706008,"sku":"9781848420410","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781848420410_d174da9d-1eec-4e8b-ac6f-59dd7bf1822c.jpg?v=1777860029","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/death-of-long-pig","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}