Albatross at Wells Maltings, 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 that follows glaciologist Alice and her mother Eve, played by Caroline Rippin and Agnes Lillis respectively. When Alice returns from Antarctica in the middle of the night, she is met with catastrophic floods and an unexpected romance that developed in her absence, while unspoken secrets and an unasked favour linger between her and her mother. Rooted in two years of research and interviews with Antarctic researchers, the play examines intergenerational responsibility and asks what one generation owes the next in an age of climate catastrophe.