A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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Franz Boas did not make quantitative claims [6] but rather pointed out that the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, with the structure of these languages tending to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word. A monologue play, A Hundred Words for Snow was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2018, and was the winner of a VAULT Origins Award for outstanding new work from the VAULT Festival theatre programme in 2018.

A Hundred Words for Snow (Trafalgar Studios) Review: A Hundred Words for Snow (Trafalgar Studios)

TH: Grief, being an explorer in a world that’s melting, and being a teenage girl in a world that doesn’t think all that much of teenage girls. With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole.The seven most common English words for snow are snow, hail, sleet, ice, icicle, slush, and snowflake. Nonetheless, the number of distinct words you can derive from them is not 50, or 150, or 1500, or a million, but simply unbounded. These three stems are found in all Inuit languages and dialects—except for West Greenlandic, which lacks * aniɣu. Join over 18 million learners to launch, switch or build upon your career, all at your own pace, across a wide range of topic areas.

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There’s only one thing she can’t tell him: in her rucksack she has the cremated ashes of her father, and she aims to scatter them at the North Pole. A Hundred Words For Snow is a love letter to the theatre, to explorers and, of course, to the North Pole.It follows Rory, a teenage girl who has abruptly lost her father, a geography teacher, who dreamed of being an explorer. Ole Henrik Magga, Diversity in Saami terminology for reindeer, snow, and ice, International Social Science Journal Volume 58, Issue 187, pages 25–34, March 2006. Despite this, and the painfully creaky chair in the front row (please sort that one OSO Arts Centre!

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This contrast is beautifully rendered, against the set and lighting by Christianna Mason and Lucy Adams respectively. Layered, complex and as beautiful as the snowfall, Hennessy’s play is an epic Arctic adventure about adolescence, grief, love, and about being an explorer in a melting world. 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. The only other person on stage, apart from the urn full of ashes, is cellist Stephanie Cummins, who tackles Nicholas Skilbeck’s beautiful compositions with grace and determination.

In the wake of all these historical men, Rory is a welcome hero, a young woman with complex thoughts and opinions, and an irresistible charm.

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But things soon take a turn for the 'real' when Rory has a sexual awakening, and after that comes to realise the serious politics underpinning global exploration.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. Nils Jernsletten,- "Sami Traditional Terminology: Professional Terms Concerning Salmon, Reindeer and Snow", Sami Culture in a New Era: The Norwegian Sami Experience. Now arriving at the Trafalgar Studio 2, it exploits the intimacy of the venue to explore the piece’s themes of loss and coming of age. Barnett is a master of comedic subtlety; her expressions are so warm, and she really grips the audience, from moments of elation and laugh-out-loud humour through to discomfort, loss and grief. One of the reasons why so many words are needed is to be able to communicate what the situation is for their reindeer husbandry.