A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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Franz Boas did not make quantitative claims [6] but rather pointed out that the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, with the structure of these languages tending to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word. Atkinson has directed such a compelling play; in the programme, she states that much of the intention was to play with what is traditionally expected of a teenage girl, in an “ expressly masculine environment”. What an absolute pleasure, this International Women’s Day, to be writing a review of such a female-driven show. Central Siberian Yupik has 40 such terms, whereas the Inuit dialect spoken in Nunavik, Quebec, has at least 53, including matsaaruti, wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for the crystalline powder snow that looks like salt.

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Christina is just another Aussie in London, writing about the arts and signing up for all the weird performance productions the city has to offer. All of them, apart from Alaska maybe, are pretty inaccessible, but that doesn’t stop a determined 15-year old from going on the adventure of a lifetime. For example, it may be necessary to describe whether the snow will allow the reindeer to walk on it, if they will be able to find food under the snow, and how the Sami themselves can travel on the snow. Her love of theatre began with musicals as a child, Starlight Express at the Apollo Victoria being her earliest memory of being completely entranced. 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.Depicting a teenage girl’s solo journey to the North Pole with her father’s ashes, A Hundred Words for Snow is a complex, epic and undulating story by Tatty Hennessy that pitches themes of death and rebirth against a shifting backdrop of climate change, exploration and the uncertain geography of the North.

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TH: I’ve always been a bit of a geek for stories of exploration, but the most famous and celebrated always seemed to be dead beardy men. For centuries, the Swedish indigenous people, the Sami, have created a large number of words for snow.TH: Unfortunately, it still feels like quite a radical thing to take the desires, longings, fears and experiences of a teenage girl seriously as a subject for art, and this play puts it front and centre.