Railtracks

The book takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, here rendered simply as J and A, infusing them with a fictive resonance as well as the weight of their reputations, accomplishments and autobiographies. <i>Railtracks </i>is a unique collaboration, a profound meditation on exile and migration, separation and consolation, reunions and railways, love and loss. It moves from the industrial to the metaphysical. And from the present to a past that still exists in vivid, essential traces. It asks what we carry with us when we must leave everything behind. It fuses longing and intimacy, distance and presence. <i>Railtracks </i>is the original text of the London stage production, <i>Vanishing Points</i>, performed by the authors and Theatre Complicite, and directed by Simon McBurney.