Island (Theatre)
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
A new play for young audiences by Nicky Singer.
Grumpy Western teenage, Cameron, arrives on an unihabited arctic island with his research scientist mother, Pascale. Beneath the soil the permafrost is melting and the graves throwing up their dead. There are bear prints in the sand and Cameron, lacking for his computer and i-pod, begins to hear – and see – things that science says cannot be there. One of them is an Inuit girl. The other is a polar bear.
No one’s an island, Cameron. You, your parents, London, Qikiqtaruk, the whales, the guillemots, the living, the dead. We’re all connected. If one moves we all move.
Island played at the National Theatre (Cottesloe 2012) and also in 40 London schools.
Read what The Independent had to say about Island:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/06/the-power-of-theatre-to-educate/
There is interest in Canada – where the play is set - in touring the play. Watch this space.
Island photo credits: Clare Park
A new play for young audiences by Nicky Singer.
Grumpy Western teenage, Cameron, arrives on an unihabited arctic island with his research scientist mother, Pascale. Beneath the soil the permafrost is melting and the graves throwing up their dead. There are bear prints in the sand and Cameron, lacking for his computer and i-pod, begins to hear – and see – things that science says cannot be there. One of them is an Inuit girl. The other is a polar bear.
No one’s an island, Cameron. You, your parents, London, Qikiqtaruk, the whales, the guillemots, the living, the dead. We’re all connected. If one moves we all move.
Island played at the National Theatre (Cottesloe 2012) and also in 40 London schools.
Read what The Independent had to say about Island:
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/06/the-power-of-theatre-to-educate/
There is interest in Canada – where the play is set - in touring the play. Watch this space.
Island photo credits: Clare Park
