A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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Later writers, prominently Roger Brown in his "Words and things" and Carol Eastman in her "Aspects of Language and Culture", inflated the figure in sensationalized stories: by 1978, the number quoted had reached fifty, and on February 9, 1984, an unsigned editorial in The New York Times gave the number as one hundred. [17] However, the linguist G. Pullum shows that Inuit and other related dialects do not possess an extraordinarily large number of terms for snow. All of them, apart from Alaska maybe, are pretty inaccessible, but that doesn’t stop a determined 15-year old from going on the adventure of a lifetime. Inspired and fast-paced, filled with taut observations and brilliant humour… [has] creativity and joy running throughout' - LondonTheatre1 Well, not literally. Literally, he was a Geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls.

A Hundred Words for Snow review, The Vaults, London, 2018 A Hundred Words for Snow review, The Vaults, London, 2018

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. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone.

Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic relativity holds that the language we speak both affects and reflects our view of the world. This idea is also reflected in the concept behind general semantics. In a popular 1940 article on the subject, Whorf referred to Eskimo languages having several words for snow: TH: It’s terrifying! I was expecting it to be a profound experience but I wasn’t at all prepared for how it felt. The landscape is like nothing I’d ever seen before, it exists on a scale of size and time that’s so inhuman. Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital 27th September 2023 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.

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Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same concepts can be expressed in other languages using combinations of words. In general and especially in this case, it is not necessarily meaningful to compare the number of words between languages that create words in different ways due to different grammatical structures. [4] [8] [note 2] 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. Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1991). The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. University of Chicago Press. [2]Reading the show’s program, with its concerns about climate change and its desire to reinstate women to their rightful place in the history of polar exploration, you can easily applaud the politics behind the project. There’s also a lot of humor in Hennessy’s writing, which has an attractive brightness, even when talking about grim issues such as funerals and grief. Although this is quite a short piece, barely 75 minutes long, there is an epic reach to its ambition. And many of the details of life in a subzero world are memorable. If some passages, about the family for example, or plane crashes, work better than others, there is a warmhearted feel to the show that can thaw any critical chilliness. After this success, I only hope that Hennessy goes on to write more and more.

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People who live in an environment in which snow or different kinds of grass, for example, play an important role are more aware of the different characteristics and appearances of different kinds of snow or grass and describe them in more detail than people in other environments. It is however not meaningful to say that people who see snow or grass as often but use another language have less words to describe it if they add the same kind of descriptive information as separate words instead of as "glued-on" ( agglutinated) additions to a similar number of words. In other words, English speakers living in Alaska, for example, have no trouble describing as many different kinds of snow as Inuit speakers. a b David Robson, New Scientist 2896, December 18 2012, Are there really 50 Eskimo words for snow?, "Yet Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington DC believes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. Taking the same care with their own work, Krupnik and others have now charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and conclude that there are indeed many more words for snow than in English (SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, 2010). Central Siberian Yupik has 40 such terms, whereas the Inuit dialect spoken in Nunavik, Quebec, has at least 53, including matsaaruti, wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for the crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. For many of these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer." Robson, David (2012). Are there really 50 Eskimo words for snow?, New Scientist no. 2896, 72–73. [5] An often used turn of phrase is that it will ‘make you laugh, make you cry’, and very few ever do.This is no exception. You may manage not to cry, you may even find some of the puns to be unfunny, but A Hundred Words For Snow hits an emotional level that is impressive in its intensity and its range. For a charming, disarming, engaging production that is familiar and edgy simultaneously, I would certainly recommend it.

recommendations are subjective and should be treated as guidelines unless otherwise stated. With this in mind, we If I were to ask you what the three hardest places to explore on earth are, one of your answers would probably be the North Pole. The geographic one to be precise, rather than the four other North Poles, or the city of North Pole in Alaska, which has holiday-themed street names like Mistletoe and North Star Drive. TH: The play tells the story of Rory, a fifteen year old girl whose father dies very suddenly. She decides to help him have one last adventure, and runs away from home with his ashes to the North Pole, without telling Mum.

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A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and was a winner of the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition.

Hello there! Welcome to TW Culture - here to champion the best in fringe theatre, comedy and culture. Tatty Hennessy is a writer and theatre director. Her writing for the stage includes: Something Awful (VAULT Festival, London, 2020); A Hundred Words for Snow (finalist in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition; Arcola Theatre, London, 2018); All That Lives and The Snow Queen. Classifications of snow– Methods for describing snowfall events and the resulting snow crystals; also discusses words for snow in other languages Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid 27th October 2023