The Conquest of the South Pole at Strawdog Theatre

A bunch of unemployed miners transform crushing boredom and desperation into a triumph of the human spirit ... namely Roland Amundsen’s victorious journey to the South Pole. Equipping themselves with all the gear they can beg and steal, they turn a laundry-filled attic into an Antarctic adventure. But can they keep real life out long enough to reach the pole? Strawdog artistic associate Kimberly Senior, director of our hit productions of Uncle Vanya and Cherry Orchard, Timeline’s All My Sons and Redtwist’s The Pillowman, brings us this brilliant riff on the way that losing what we do can make us forget who we are.