A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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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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Hannah Corbett’s Lighting and Dennis Dowding’s Sound Design provide nuance and subtlety to the play. note 1] A good deal of the ongoing debate thus depends on how one defines "word", and perhaps even "word root". 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. CM: I am really jealous to hear that you’ve visited Tromso and Svalbard, as I’ve fairly recently been browsing airbnb listings in both locations… can you tell us a bit about what Svalbard is like?Words are the stars of this show, carefully selected and crafted to create a play with real beauty, depth and heart. 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. 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.

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It is perfectly conceivable that this variety of ideas, each of which is expressed by a single independent term in English, might be expressed in other languages by derivations from the same term. You're left asking whether conquering 'virgin territory' in the poles is any less icky than a sexual 'conquest'. Reading the show’s program, with its concerns about climate change and its desire to reinstate women to their rightful place in the history of polar exploration, you can easily applaud the politics behind the project. Despite this, and the painfully creaky chair in the front row (please sort that one OSO Arts Centre!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.

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In other words, English speakers living in Alaska, for example, have no trouble describing as many different kinds of snow as Inuit speakers. Tatty Hennessy’s debut play, a one-woman show delivered with great panache by Gemma Barnett, has already been seen at the Arcola, at the 2018 Vault Festival, and on a national tour. The first reference [13] to Inuit having multiple words for snow is in the introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages (1911) by linguist and anthropologist Franz Boas. 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. Rory’s father is her geography teacher, but in her heart, she knows he’s an explorer who is always planning the next adventure they will have together.

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. Rather, the production managed to re-create what we see so often in life; the funny side to a bad event.