'We need to hear bone splintering!' – Touching the Void crashes on to the stage

It is one of the most breathtaking stories of disaster, abandonment and survival in mountaineering. Will a theatre version finally settle its brutal controversies?

Two men are climbing up a jagged steel frame that juts towards the ceiling at a sharp angle. It looks dangerous and exhausting. Sweat sheens their faces as one of them suddenly shouts: “I’m going to go!” He begins to fall backwards in slow motion, limbs starfishing as he catches his right leg on the frame. Head thrown back, he screams in wide-eyed horror.

There is a moment of silence in the rehearsal room, then applause from the creative team. “Excellent!” says Tom Morris, the director, before turning to a colleague on sound effects and saying: “Remember, we need to hear splintering bone.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2PDXDRQ