IN TANDEM
THEATRE COMPANY
'A Great Fear Of Shallow Living'
A New Play by In Tandem Theatre Company
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Created by Bettine Mackenzie, Isobel Hughes and Bella Loudon
It is well known that it was at 6pm on the 33rd of December 1883, as the first orange tree was sprouting on Orkney Beach, that Mrs Muir opened a chest, found her skin and returned to the sea.
It is not so well known that at this exact same moment, while the villagers cheered and rushed to the shore, a little girl awoke with salt on her lips and whispered ‘all my daughters will be born selkies’.
Inspired by the Celtic legend of the Selkie, A Great Fear Of Shallow Living is a trilogy of stories about being torn, about needing to be two things, but having to be one.
Mythologies are passed down through generations as both gift and curse, encouraging us to conform and inspiring us to rebel. Helping us to belong, while whispering we don't have to.
"An honourd audince will quarrel with what it has seen, it will go home in a state of anger, not because it dissaproves, but because it has been taken where it was reluctant to go. Thus morality is created by art, by exposure to pain and illegitimate thought." Howard Barker