It arrives with a flurry of good reviews and accolades, including the Origin Award for outstanding work at VAULT 2018 and the Arcola Theatre's Heretic Voices Award for best monologue-form play.
Hundred Words follows a teenage girl called Rory. She takes it upon herself to transport her father's ashes to the Arctic to and fulfill his dying wish. Along the way she encounters beauty and terror, polar bears and melting ice. The references to extreme polar vistas and the natural world are rooted firmly in reality: pioneering polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE, the first person to ski solo across the Antarctic land mass, was an advisor during the script-writing.
The show is the work of an all-female core creative team of writer Tatty Hennessy, director Lucy Jane Atkinson and solo performer Gemma Barnett, all of whom are newcomers to the West End. Hennessy describes the play as about 'a teenage girl [...] her difficulties and desires [...] it also looks at our relationship with the planet, the delicate interconnectedness of nature.'
What | A Hundred Words for Snow, Trafalgar Studios |
Where | Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY | MAP |
Nearest tube | Charing Cross (underground) |
When |
05 Mar 19 – 30 Mar 19, Matinees at 15:00:00 Thursdays, Saturday |
Price | £15-30 |
Website | Click here for more information and to book |