Past Productions:

114 productions, 266 playwrights

A Paines Plough production

Returning Fire
by Stephen Jeffreys

November-December 1985

sky gazing

Synopsis

This new play has been specially written to celebrate the return of Halley's Comet in November 1985.

The play tells the story of Sonia Morozov, who was born in 1910, the year that the comet last appeared. She becomes a brilliant astronomer and spends much of her life travelling. Now, in 1985 she awaits the return of the comet.