Gradfest25: Gundog

“Land beneath our feet. Got all our blood inside it hasn’t it? All that time. Belongs to us.”

On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the death of their mother. Time is always moving somewhere – but here it’s very quiet. When they discover a stranger wandering across their land, the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination to survive.

Gundog is a rare rural play; an astringent picture of poverty and demographic change that explores the struggle to survive and the depths of loss with brutality, tenderness, and a poetic sense of time.

Running time approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes without an interval.

Read more about the GradFest 2025 programme at this link here.

This is an amateur production, presented by arrangement Blue Posts Management Limited. Gundog was commissioned by and first produced at The Royal Court Theatre, London in 2018

Poster Image Credit: Dinny Dolan by Brigitta Varadi, photograph by Keith Nolan

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