A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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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. 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. And often pulling few punches while doing so. A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears. Connoisseurs of the road-trip plot will be used to the fact that these often take the form of a Comedy or a Drama but the thing I particularly liked about A Hundred Words For Snow is that there were equal elements of both. And often not constrained to separate sections of the story. Rather, the production managed to re-create what we see so often in life; the funny side to a bad event. The trip Rory takes has its pitfalls and many of them have both little moments of sadness and little moments of humour/happiness. It was a very pleasant experience to see that reflected so realistically.

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Classifications of snow– Methods for describing snowfall events and the resulting snow crystals; also discusses words for snow in other languages A Hundred Words for Snow is a joy from start to finish. It is funny, thoughtful and heart-warming. I left the theatre ready for an adventure of my own. Martin, Laura. 1986. "Eskimo Words for Snow": A Case Study in the Genesis and Decay of an Anthropological Example. American Anthropologist, 88(2):418" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-29 . Retrieved 2019-06-13. Caro Meets Theatre Interview Tatty Hennessy: A Hundred Words For Snow By Caro Moses | Published on Friday 1 March 2019 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. It is however not meaningful to say that people who see snow or grass as often but use another language have less words to describe it if they add the same kind of descriptive information as separate words instead of as "glued-on" ( agglutinated) additions to a similar number of words. In other words, English speakers living in Alaska, for example, have no trouble describing as many different kinds of snow as Inuit speakers.Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid 27th October 2023

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Tatty Hennessy's play A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It's a coming-of-age story. With polar bears. Lighting Designer Lucy Adams’ use of dark blue aids the show in its moments of silence and reflection, and Sound Designers Mark Sutcliffe and Annie May Fletcher give direction to the play without it being overbearing, creating a shifting soundscape fit for an adventure. TH: Every play is political. I don’t think about using the play to make points – its about telling a story, and the story explores several areas and I hope encourages an audience to reflect on things – on how we now engage, and how we have historically engaged, with our planet and with each other, and if there’s a way we could be doing this better. Téa Guarino... chisels her way through this icy expanse with grace and aplomb. The character of Rory seems frighteningly young to be having the adventures she has, except the play is largely a metaphor for coming-of-age transformations and revelations."

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Words are the stars of this show, carefully selected and crafted to create a play with real beauty, depth and heart. CM: Can we talk a bit about you now…? Was writing and directing always your planned career? How did you get to this stage, career wise? At the same time, Rory’s journey is an uncertain mix of fantasy and reality. I wasn’t really convinced that this nice middle-class teen would embark on such an adventure without talking to her mother: at the start of the play they are quite close, and Rory’s jokes about her Mum are the normal frustrations of all teens. She seems too sweet to be a rebel. Yet although the premise of her mission doesn’t feel right, being more of a fantasy than a real event, Hennessy does inject the story with some realistic detail. Rory’s meeting with Andreas, that rapidly becomes intimate, is told with excruciatingly true detail. And the equation of female virginity with virgin territory is metaphorically strong. We are, after all, raping the planet.

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A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and was a winner of the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition. 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. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone.Weyapuk, Winton Jr, et al. (2012). Kiŋikmi Sigum Qanuq Ilitaavut [ Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary]. Washington DC: Arctic Studies Center Smithsonian. An often used turn of phrase is that it will ‘make you laugh, make you cry’, and very few ever do.This is no exception. You may manage not to cry, you may even find some of the puns to be unfunny, but A Hundred Words For Snow hits an emotional level that is impressive in its intensity and its range. For a charming, disarming, engaging production that is familiar and edgy simultaneously, I would certainly recommend it. Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital 27th September 2023 A Performance of Pediophobia: “Nightmare Dollhouse” Brings Uncanny Horror to NYC 27th September 2023