Each Slow Dusk [Paperback]

The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight.
And a hundred years later, The Woman seeks to understand.

1916  In the darkness of the French night, three young soldiers, a private, a corporal and a captain, cross no man's land towards the enemy trench. Stealth is key to their survival and so they walk in silence, with nothing to communicate the thoughts in their heads save for the barest of gestures.

2014  A woman goes on a day trip to visit the touristic monuments commemorating the Battle of the Somme at Vimy Ridge and the Loghnagar Crater  the site of a mine explosion that killed over 6,000 people  where she encounters remembrance, restaurants and bright, themed gift shops.

Each Slow Duskis a startling play about action, humanity, and the legacy of war. Immersing you in the reality of conflict through vivid, thrilling detail, it gives you a fresh way of thinking about war  from the past soldiers' perspective to the woman's present-day experience.

Each Slow Duskwas published to coincide with the first production and national tour of the play by Pentabus Rural Theatre Company, in autumn, 2014.

Rory Mullarkeywon the 2014 George Devine Award for his playThe Wolf from the Doorand was the recipient of the Pinter Commission in 2014  an award given annually by Lady Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter's widow, to support a new commission at the Royal Court. He was the Royal Court's writer-on-attachment in 2010 and has been closely associated with the theatre's international work, translating Russian-language plays from Latvia, Russia and Ukraine, including Aleksey Scherbak'sRemembrance Dayas part of the 2011 International Season and for a number of staged readings. His first full-length play,Cannibals,opened at the Royal Exchange Manchester in 2013, where he became the youngest playwright to have his work performed on their main stl3P