Touching the Void (book) stage by David Greig and that the play would receive its world premiere the following year and would begin previews at the Bristol Old Vic on 8 September 2018, with an official opening night on 18 September, booking for a limited period until 6 October. Touching the Void (book) Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates' successful but disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It has sold over a million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages. In
Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish director. His films include a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, "One Day in September" (1999), the climbing documentary "Touching the Void" (2003), the drama "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), the political thriller "State of Play" (2009), the Bob Marley documentary "Marley" (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama "How I Live Now" (2013), the thriller "Black Sea" (2014), and the Whitney Houston documentary "Whitney" (2018). Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandparents were the Hungarian-born British filmmaker Emeric Pressburger and English screenwriter and actress