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'A man can't scrap his bloodline, can't snip the thread of immortality.'

Such is the strength of Joe Saul's desperate longing for a child, that he feels as if a dark curse is upon him after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile.

His beautiful, young, devoted wife loves him so much that she secretly conceives the child of another man. But when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever before...

A powerful, tragic and deeply moving tale.

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'#Burning Bright’s# four solitary characters are neither flesh-and-blood nor stock figures; husband, wife, friend, outsider, they are the legendary archetypes of folklore, speaking a spare, bare-boned language salted with colour – a kind of abstract folk speech that is stilted, poetic and moving’ The New York Times

‘A morality play conceived with poetic intensity’ New York Herald Tribune

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