A double-bill of solo performances by Grace Kirby & Peter Macqueen.
Two actor-writers take on big issues in this unique double-bill of new one-person plays.
Grace Kirby’s Nancy's Orange is inspired by a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to elderly patients in remote countryside along Hadrian's Wall, discovering lives richly lived through stories of love, loss, sadness and joy, infused with poetry and humour.
In The Butterfly Collector lifelong citizen naturalist Peter Macqueen (Old Herbaceous) draws on childhood memories of holidays collecting butterflies and sets them against the drastic attempt to rescue that collection, and those memories, fifty years later, when Storm Desmond flooded more than 7,000 homes in Cumbria. The play is set in the near future, when there are too many storms to name and too few butterflies to count. A man sits on a tower of furniture having a picnic, telling moth jokes - but are the waters rising, or receding?
Recommended 12+
Running Time: 85mins + interval
“Very moving, inspiring work and enthralling performances”
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