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History One of the long forgotten tales of bravery is that of the northern scientific party which accompanied Scott on his Antarctic trek. Whilst Scott's party was dying in the south, these British officers and gentlemen, with no hope of rescue for months, dug a hole and stayed there. They spent seven months in that hole, eating virtually nothing and essentially sleeping in their own human waste, never changing their clothes once. Now playwrite David Young has turned the story into a play, to try and bring this epic story to public attention, although as The Guardian's Michael Billington (reviewer in theatre for thirty years) points out, this is story ripe for a cinematic telling.