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An often used turn of phrase is that it will ‘make you laugh, make you cry’, and very few ever do.This is no exception. You may manage not to cry, you may even find some of the puns to be unfunny, but A Hundred Words For Snow hits an emotional level that is impressive in its intensity and its range. For a charming, disarming, engaging production that is familiar and edgy simultaneously, I would certainly recommend it. With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone. This edition also includes the diary of her research trip to the Arctic Circle, and the short play Distant Early Warning, set in 2053 in what was once Greenland. Inspired and fast-paced, filled with taut observations and brilliant humour… [has] creativity and joy running throughout' LondonTheatre1 Téa Guarino... chisels her way through this icy expanse with grace and aplomb. The character of Rory seems frighteningly young to be having the adventures she has, except the play is largely a metaphor for coming-of-age transformations and revelations."TH: Unfortunately, it still feels like quite a radical thing to take the desires, longings, fears and experiences of a teenage girl seriously as a subject for art, and this play puts it front and centre. Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA 21st October 2023 Lighting Designer Lucy Adams’ use of dark blue aids the show in its moments of silence and reflection, and Sound Designers Mark Sutcliffe and Annie May Fletcher give direction to the play without it being overbearing, creating a shifting soundscape fit for an adventure. It would be remiss of me not to gush a little about Hennessy’s writing. There is no single unnecessary word; everything feels firmly in its place. Rory is a beautifully executed character. Having been a teenage girl, I identified with everything she expressed – the concerns, the fears, doubts and difficulties, the humour and sarcasm – all of which were real and deeply felt. Hennessy has created a smart, poignant play, in which there is no lost moment. On the other hand, some anthropologists have argued that Boas, who lived among Baffin islanders and learnt their language, did in fact take account of the polysynthetic nature of Inuit language and included "only words representing meaningful distinctions" in his account. [3] Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington, supports Boas's work but notes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. Krupnik and others charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and concluded that they indeed have many more words for snow than English does. Central Siberian Yupik has 40 terms. Inuit dialect spoken in Canada's Nunavik region has at least 53, including matsaaruti, for wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. Within these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer. In the Inupiaq dialect of Wales, Alaska, Krupnik documented 70 terms for ice including: utuqaq, ice that lasts year after year; siguliaksraq, a patchwork layer of crystals that form as the sea begins to freeze; and auniq, ice that is filled with holes. Similarly, the Sami people, who live in the northern tips of Scandinavia and Russia, use at least 180 words related to snow and ice, according to Ole Henrik Magga, a linguist in Norway. (Unlike Inuit dialects, Sami ones are not polysynthetic, making it easier to distinguish words.) [9]

A Hundred Words For Snow, Trafalgar Studios Review: A Hundred Words For Snow, Trafalgar Studios

A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and was a winner of the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition. Tatty Hennessy's play A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It's a coming-of-age story. With polar bears.

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The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and Arts Council England. Kilarski, Marcin (2021). "Eskimo words for snow". A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. Vol.129. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.275–322. doi: 10.1075/sihols.129. ISBN 978-90-272-1049-4. S2CID 244025983. The set design by Christianna Mason is ingenious, creating a landscape which reflects the explorer spirit and is downright beautiful. Every time something was pulled from a little cubby or out of a chest, my heart jumped like a child on an Easter egg hunt. Caro Meets Theatre Interview Tatty Hennessy: A Hundred Words For Snow By Caro Moses | Published on Friday 1 March 2019 Rory monologue: Rory’s Dad has just died. She tells the audience about him whilst holding an urn filled with his ashes.