Professional Theatre in the Derbyshire Dales

Tuesday 21st Sept

The Unknown Land is a new play by writer Caroline Small inspired by true accounts of nineteenth century Arctic exploration, Inuit mythology and the fatal attraction of the polar regions.

The year is 1844. Samuel Straw is the last survivor of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. His story is told by one actor and a musician playing the traditional songs of land and sea. We learn why he answered a newspaper advertisement inviting him to join a ship bound for the unknown wastes north of Greenland; how the loneliness, the strength-sapping treks across the ice and the merciless cold change him forever and how the certainties of his early life are challenged as he faces that bleak environment. Samuel’s story is told by one actor and a musician playing the traditional songs of land and sea.

The show won a ‘Best Actor’ nomination at the Buxton Festival Fringe last summer.

Waltham House 1.00pm
£5.00

Waltham House 7:30pm
£8.00 (Concessions £6)

www.cottongrass.mirai.co.uk