A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid 27th October 2023 a b Krupnik, Igor; Müller-Wille, Ludger (2010), Krupnik, Igor; Aporta, Claudio; Gearheard, Shari; Laidler, Gita J. (eds.), "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" ", SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp.377–400, doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_16, ISBN 978-90-481-8586-3 , retrieved 2023-01-16 Téa Guarino... chisels her way through this icy expanse with grace and aplomb. The character of Rory seems frighteningly young to be having the adventures she has, except the play is largely a metaphor for coming-of-age transformations and revelations." A Hundred Words For Snow is a warm and witty coming-of-age story set in a melting world. It’s a complex story which discusses grief, courage and polar bears. It’s an epic tale about how one girl goes on a journey through adolescence and the Arctic, discovering herself and also the destruction of the planet.

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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. Connoisseurs of the road-trip plot will be used to the fact that these often take the form of a Comedy or a Drama but the thing I particularly liked about A Hundred Words For Snow is that there were equal elements of both. And often not constrained to separate sections of the story. Rather, the production managed to re-create what we see so often in life; the funny side to a bad event. The trip Rory takes has its pitfalls and many of them have both little moments of sadness and little moments of humour/happiness. It was a very pleasant experience to see that reflected so realistically. Brought to us by playwright Tatty Hennessy, A Hundred Words For Snow is a one-woman play performed by recent Oxford School of Drama graduate Gemma Barnett. While, understandably, it doesn’t actually contain one hundred different words for snow, it does offer the audience a charming, well-produced emotive piece that manages to be lighthearted while also dealing with a number of significant life-changing issues. And often pulling few punches while doing so.At the same time, Rory’s journey is an uncertain mix of fantasy and reality. I wasn’t really convinced that this nice middle-class teen would embark on such an adventure without talking to her mother: at the start of the play they are quite close, and Rory’s jokes about her Mum are the normal frustrations of all teens. She seems too sweet to be a rebel. Yet although the premise of her mission doesn’t feel right, being more of a fantasy than a real event, Hennessy does inject the story with some realistic detail. Rory’s meeting with Andreas, that rapidly becomes intimate, is told with excruciatingly true detail. And the equation of female virginity with virgin territory is metaphorically strong. We are, after all, raping the planet.

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TH: Every play is political. I don’t think about using the play to make points – its about telling a story, and the story explores several areas and I hope encourages an audience to reflect on things – on how we now engage, and how we have historically engaged, with our planet and with each other, and if there’s a way we could be doing this better. The first reference [13] to Inuit having multiple words for snow is in the introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages (1911) by linguist and anthropologist Franz Boas. He says: Krupnik, Igor; Müller-Wille, Ludger (2010), "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" ", in Krupnik, Igor; Aporta, Claudio; Gearheard, Shari; Laidler, Gita J.; Holm, Lene Kielsen (eds.), SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use, Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media, pp.377–99, ISBN 9789048185870 Kaplan, Larry (June 2003). "Inuit Snow Terms: How Many and What Does It Mean? | Alaska Native Language Center". www.uaf.edu . Retrieved 2021-12-10. This edition also includes the diary of her research trip to the Arctic Circle, and the short play Distant Early Warning, set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.People who live in an environment in which snow or different kinds of grass, for example, play an important role are more aware of the different characteristics and appearances of different kinds of snow or grass and describe them in more detail than people in other environments. It is however not meaningful to say that people who see snow or grass as often but use another language have less words to describe it if they add the same kind of descriptive information as separate words instead of as "glued-on" ( agglutinated) additions to a similar number of words. In other words, English speakers living in Alaska, for example, have no trouble describing as many different kinds of snow as Inuit speakers. Boas, Franz. 1911. Handbook of American Indian languages pp. 25-26. Boas "utilized" this part also in his book The Mind of Primitive Man. 1911. pp. 145-146. It would be remiss of me not to gush a little about Hennessy’s writing. There is no single unnecessary word; everything feels firmly in its place. Rory is a beautifully executed character. Having been a teenage girl, I identified with everything she expressed – the concerns, the fears, doubts and difficulties, the humour and sarcasm – all of which were real and deeply felt. Hennessy has created a smart, poignant play, in which there is no lost moment.