This is where we’ll be sharing our journey during the research and development of our new play Thorrablot.
This play tells the stories of four women, across different time periods and places who find themselves caught in conflict between civilisation and nature. Thorrablot explores the impact of industrialisation on climate change, linking through history to a cataclysmic ecological event.
We’ve received R&D funding from the Arts Council England to work on this, our second collaboration, and later in the year will be workshopping with actors and sharing the work in progress.
You might be wondering what Thorrablot means? We took the title from the name of a traditional midwinter feast that takes place in Iceland as a sacrifice to the pagan gods. Þorrablót has similarities to a Scottish Burns Night where the community comes together for a night of storytelling, music and revelry – and of course some traditional food, most of which is arguably quite disgusting, but more on that another time!
Emma and Rob
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