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.

A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios | Review A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios | Review

English has many snow-related words, [15] but Boas's intent may have been to connect differences in culture with differences in language. As a string player myself, I’ve been asked to do some weird things with my violin but evoking the sounds of ice breaking and cracking as it moves, using the back of her instrument, is a new one. While, understandably, it doesn’t actually contain one hundred different words for snow, it does offer the audience a charming, well-produced emotive piece that manages to be lighthearted while also dealing with a number of significant life-changing issues. A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios is written by Tatty Hennessy, directed by Lucy Jane Atkinson and performed by Gemma Barnett. For a charming, disarming, engaging production that is familiar and edgy simultaneously, I would certainly recommend it.It made me feel genuinely good and hopeful that there are people out there who care about our environment and those people close to us. Her writing for the stage includes: Something Awful (VAULT Festival, London, 2020); A Hundred Words for Snow (finalist in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition; Arcola Theatre, London, 2018); All That Lives and The Snow Queen. It’s a style that can be hard to use as it relies on the quality of the character, both written and acted, to make it effective. We [English speakers] have the same word for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow hard packed like ice, slushy snow, wind-driven snow– whatever the situation may be. 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.

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We always know exactly where Rory is, despite the vast terrain from her bedroom to the Pole that she explores, making the design both simple yet sophisticated.A Hundred Words for Snow is an emotional journey of self-discovery and grief set within a melting Arctic world with polar bears. But things soon take a turn for the 'real' when Rory has a sexual awakening, and after that comes to realise the serious politics underpinning global exploration.

A Hundred Words for Snow review, The Vaults, London, 2018 A Hundred Words for Snow review, The Vaults, London, 2018

Barnett is impassioned and intoxicating as Rory, the teenage tomboy who sets out to reach the North Pole to honour her dead dad, a geography teacher and a frustrated adventurer. The play unfolds in a wilderness which is both actual (arctic) and figurative (an emotional landscape filled with loss and abandonment). It’s a bit weird to be sitting in the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your Dad’s ashes in your backpack” Rory’s Dad was an explorer.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. We find out about the five different kinds of pole, from magnetic to geographic, and about Tromsø, its museums and the plight of polar bears in the far north. The excitement she portrays on stage is infectious and she very quickly has every single audience member under her spell. I still find tears suddenly dripping down my face, and I must have looked a right state crying into the miso soup I grabbed on the way home as a quick dinner. Year round, we pick the best shows happening in London and online each week, providing handy Three To See recommendations and interviewing the people behind those productions.

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A lot to pack into an hour and, if I’m honest, it did seem a little rushed in parts with some significant time skips that (while entirely understandable) were a little noticeable and given the storytelling style, could actually have been addressed differently to take some of the impact away. 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. The set, by designer Christianna Mason, looks like a cross between old-world geography textbook and a museum exhibition, and Barnett’s performance is wonderfully engaging. Winner of the Heretic Voices Award, the Vault Origins Award and nominated for 4 Off West End Awards, A Hundred Words for Snow is directed by Brendon Fox and features guest artist Téa Guarino in her CRT debut. CM: The play has already had brilliant reviews for previous runs, of course, so it’s no wonder there was a desire to get it back on stage.Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. A monologue play, A Hundred Words for Snow was a finalist in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition, presenting the best new writing in monologue form, and celebrating unique voices with exceptional stories to tell. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and was a winner of the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition. Krupnik, Igor; Müller-Wille, Ludger (2010), "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" ", in Krupnik, Igor; Aporta, Claudio; Gearheard, Shari; Laidler, Gita J.