Albatross at Drama Studio (UEA), Norfolk

Albatross, written by George Devine and Bruntwood Prize winner Martha Loader and directed by Patrick Morris, is a new play commissioned by Menagerie Theatre. Rooted in two years of research and interviews with Antarctic researchers, the play follows glaciologist Alice, played by Caroline Rippin, and her mother Eve, played by Agnes Lillis, as they navigate unspoken truths and a weighty unasked favour when Alice returns home in the middle of the night from Antarctica. Set against the backdrop of the climate emergency, the play examines intergenerational stewardship and what one generation owes the next.