Thirty-seven-year-old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence.
Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds – kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes.
The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.
This will be a work in progress performance.Support from LEWIS BUXTON: Born in 1993, Lewis Buxton is a writer and theatre maker. His work has appeared in The Independent, The Art Review, Poetry Review, The Rialto, and Magma amongst others. His first collection Boy in Various Poses was published by Nine Arches Press in 2021. His debut theatre show ‘BOY!’ toured in 2023, and his new show ‘FRIEND’ is touring in Autumn 2024. He lives in Norfolk.
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