LOST AT SEA - CATHERINE WHEELS THEATRE COMPANY - SCOTLAND
Today, Room 2 had the opportunity to attend a theatre show for free! The show normally would cost $10.00, but due to another school pulling out and being unable to attend the intermediates and Year 6’s were offered to watch this show for free! It was a fantastic and eye opening show and the students learnt and realised so much. Below is in depth information about the show.
The intention of the arts is not always to communicate or educate, or even to reach people’s hearts rather than their minds but to inspire enquiry through discovery.
There’s no more evocative and terrifying image of climate change and the selfish wastefulness of humanity than that of the Great Pacific garbage patch, a swirling vortex of plastic and rubbish swirling around a great gyre somewhere in the region of Hawaii.
In this piece playwright Morna Pearson and director Gill Robertson partly reclaim this image as just one facet of the power of nature and possibility.
Performing on a large map of planet Earth, Ashley Smith and Laurie Brown are a teenage girl and boy on opposite sides of the world. They’re united by 28,000 rubber ducks which were lost at sea, when a shipping container was washed off the deck of a ship sailing out of Hong Kong in 1992.
The boy’s life is marked by migration and movement, from the Highlands of Scotland to Australia (where his mother died and her ashes were cast into Byron Bay), before moving to Alaska and finally Hawaii. In Hawaii he finds 98 of the ducks washed ashore, earning unwanted media fame as ‘Duck Boy’.
On the Isle of Harris, meanwhile, the girl yearns to find just one of the ducks on her local beach, researching currents and paths of travel between oceans to determine whether this is even remotely possible.
Lost at Sea very entertaining and offered insight to the world of oceanography through an awfully big adventure.
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