Grace Kirby & Peter Macqueen - Nancys Orange + The Butterfly Collector

Two actor-writers take on big issues in this unique double-bill of one-person plays.

Grace Kirby’s Nancy's Orange is inspired by a part-time job delivering NHS prescriptions to elderly patients in remote countryside along Hadrian's Wall, discovering lives richly lived through stories of love, loss, sadness and joy, infused with poetry and humour.

In The Butterfly Collector lifelong citizen naturalist Peter Macqueen draws on childhood memories of holidays collecting butterflies and sets them against the drastic attempt to rescue that collection (and those memories) fifty years later, when Storm Desmond flooded more than 7,000 homes in Cumbria. The play is set in the near future, when there are too many storms to name and too few butterflies to count. A man sits on a tower of furniture having a picnic, telling moth jokes—are the waters rising or receding?

“Very moving, inspiring work and enthralling performances” —audience member.

Touring Dorset with Artsreach, the county’s rural arts charity.

Recommended 12+

Running Time: 85mins + interval