Written by Tim Firth

Originally produced by Stephen Joseph Theatre, June 1992.

Also produced at Nottingham Playhouse and Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

Foreign productions have taken place in New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, Australia, Canada, America, Norway, Spain and Poland and Slovenia.

 

Nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy

 

1992

A COMEDY IN THICK FOG

A comedic exploration of the benefits of the business outward bound course and how relationships can be changed forever by a weekend away in the country…

 

Four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater.

 

Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recreminations, French cricket and sausages.

 

What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. And what took place on Neville's Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget...

 

Are Neville’s map reading skills as good as he thinks?

The play is available in print
SAMUEL FRENCH:
ISBN 0-573-14005-7

A television film was made and broadcast in 1998 starring Timothy Spall, Jeff Rawle, David Bamber and Martin Clunes.

The DVD of this film is available

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