Passages
“This show was like a well-crafted aerial firework display, with its interweaving strands & colours
culminating in three mighty detonations.”
Passages is a solo performance which weaves together history, folklore, and music, combining the tales of three sea voyages.
Stories of wrecks, rescues and migration.
Stories which show the wild elements and human spirit at their best, worst and most beautiful.
Come for an evening of storytelling and songs and be transported.
Three by three. Triùir is triùir.
The third knot.
The third wave.
The third passage.
It is 1605. Fionnlagh is desperate to escape his dying island home.
But the island has a jealous will, and power over the wind and waves.
In his dreams a strange voice calls to him from across the violent sea, and Fionnlagh must set himself against the island’s rage in his tiny craft, The Rònan…
It is December 1919, the long war is over and Donald is coming home. Like hundreds of other naval reservists from Lewis and the Hebrides, he is speeding North by boat and train in time for New Years Day.
For the final leg of his journey, as the wind rises, he boards The Iolaire…
It is 1945, the Paalberg family and their friends have endured hardship and horror. They fled their homes in Estonia as first the Nazis, then the Soviets, rolled in.
But they are still pursued.
To escape they must dare the wide terror of the Atlantic, and put their faith in each other, in the mercy of strangers, and in the sturdy wooden bones of The Erma…
These brave journeys play out against a backdrop of music and song, charting the hopes and heroic struggles of characters both real and fabled.
Artwork by Jo Elizabeth May
