First & Last

"One of theatre''s subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)

One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land''s End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen miles in his life before, his health is uncertain, his boots are new, and he is too diffident to talk to anyone he meets along the way.

His slow, solitary progress up the spine of ...