Writing until the light goes out
Ian Gouge - Writing until the light goes out
Crash: the last 30 minutes of a life - a poetic monologue
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Crash: the last 30 minutes of a life - a poetic monologue

What happens during the last thirty minutes of your life as you struggle to wake from sleep one final time?

Does the entirety of your life indeed ‘flash before your eyes’, or are there just a few random incidents and moments which insist on being replayed and resolved?

And when these too eventually begin to dissolve, what then…?

Attempting to explore a fresh and flexible poetic style, Crash was partly inspired by the work of T.S.Eliot and Samuel Beckett.

Crash was first performed by the author in its final form as a dramatic monologue at the Ripon Theatre Festival, 2023.

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