Saturday 18th October at 7pm
Cost £12 per adult and £6 per Child
Nancy’s Orange is inspired by Grace Kirby’s experiences in a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to patients, often elderly and isolated, in the beautiful but remote countryside of the North Pennines and along the Cumbrian stretch of Hadrian’s Wall. Brief encounters happen on doorsteps, in gardens, in kitchens and even on balconies, revealing lives richly lived through stories of love and loss, sadness and joy, infused with poetry and humour.
The Butterfly Collector As well as a successful actor and writer, Peter Macqueen
is a keen amateur naturalist with a particular passion for butterflies and moths.
The Butterfly Collector brings both these strands of his life together by exploring very personal experiences of the effects of climate change. He draws on childhood memories of happy holidays collecting butterflies (he uses a camera now!) and sets them against the drastic attempt to rescue that collection (and those memories) fifty years later, when Storm Desmond flooded more than 7,000 homes in Cumbria, including his own. The play is set some time in the future. Storms are so frequent they have serial numbers instead of names and butterflies—remember them?—are too few to count. Meet a man sat on a tower of furniture—a chair on a box on a table—having a picnic. Is the water rising or receding? And even though it’s practically the end of the world, there are moth jokes . . .
“A roller coaster of emotion. I laughed, I had goosebumps, I was thoroughly
engrossed/entertained, moved, close to tears.”
