Pyrenees

In a mountain pass, high in the Pyrenees, two climbers discover a middle-aged man unconscious in the snow. He wears a coat with an American label and a suit by a tailor in Geneva. In one hand, he clasps a briefcase full of euros; in the other, the scallop-shell medallion traditionally carried by pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. He has no papers, no passport, and no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he speaks English...

Anna Edwards, from the British Consulate in Marseilles, is duly despatched to see if she can establish his identity. But as she and the man sit on a nearby hotel terrace trying to reconstruct his past and confirm his nationality, an unexpected attraction begins to develop between them. The sudden arrival of a visitor threatens to undermine their conclusions - and the burgeoning romance. For the newcomer, Vivienne, claims that she is the man’s wife. That he has a job, a family and a home in Edinburgh. And that she has been pursuing him across Europe for several months...

David Greig is widely regarded as Scotland’s greatest living playwright. Following on from his last play to appear at PFT - Outlying Islands, which received a memorable production in 2008 - Pyrenees is a mysterious, tense, thought-provoking drama that questions the very meaning of identity.