A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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A Hundred Words For Snow manages to capture a genuine teenage voice we see far too little of on stage.

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We’d build igloos in the garden and he’d pretend to be a polar bear and chase me, and I tried to imagine it, a place where men’s tongues froze to their beards, where houses were made out of blocks of ice, the ground under your feet could crack open and swallow you whole. This solidified a life-long love of theatre, whether in the back of a pub, a disused warehouse or in the heart of the West End. 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. 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.Depicting a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes, A Hundred Words for Snow is a complex, epic and undulating story by Tatty Hennessy that pitches themes of death and rebirth against a shifting backdrop of climate change, exploration and the uncertain geography of the North. So, despite the projections having potential, and the animation being quirky, mostly the impact was lost by the layout of the theatre space. A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios is written by Tatty Hennessy, directed by Lucy Jane Atkinson and performed by Gemma Barnett.

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Along the way, she talks about his enthusiasm for the cold northern climes and the great explorers of history, such as Shackleton, Franklin, Peary, and Nansen. Rory sets off with a big rucksack, a big grin, and her father's ashes tucked under her arm – just as one of the Famous Five might pack lashings of ginger beer and scotch eggs. Brought to us by playwright Tatty Hennessy, A Hundred Words For Snow is a one-woman play performed by recent Oxford School of Drama graduate Gemma Barnett. The set design by Christianna Mason is ingenious, creating a landscape which reflects the explorer spirit and is downright beautiful.People who live in an environment in which snow or different kinds of grass, for example, play an important role are more aware of the different characteristics and appearances of different kinds of snow or grass and describe them in more detail than people in other environments.

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The coffin like, slides behind these red curtains, and all I could think about was how many other people must’ve been burned in there and how unless they’re really good at sweeping there’s probably little bits of other people still in there with him and I wondered who they were and what their family thought about when the curtain shut. I took the ashes after I found the journal after I went into Dad’s study after the crematorium curtains shut which was all after I sat at the kitchen table and stared at a spoon when Mum said that he’d died. Atkinson has directed such a compelling play; in the programme, she states that much of the intention was to play with what is traditionally expected of a teenage girl, in an “ expressly masculine environment”.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.

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The trip Rory takes has its pitfalls and many of them have both little moments of sadness and little moments of humour/happiness. of The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language, Geoffrey K. Personal favorite moment for me was her arrival in Svalbard: “I can’t believe that places like this exist, or that London can still exist right now, at the same time, as this place here. There’s also a lot of humor in Hennessy’s writing, which has an attractive brightness, even when talking about grim issues such as funerals and grief.Querying the electronic Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition for entries defined using "snow" allows one to add blizzard, corn, cornice, drift, graupel, igloo, névé, sastruga (also spelled zastruga), and whiteout, and arguably others like scud and windrift. Along the epic journey that would, in reality, have been over 2600 miles, we are vicariously a part of Rory dealing with loss, ‘coming of age’, and in many ways learning to understand herself and the world around her better. Barnett is a master of comedic subtlety; her expressions are so warm, and she really grips the audience, from moments of elation and laugh-out-loud humour through to discomfort, loss and grief. The play won the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition and was first produced at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2018.