Deborah Warner
Theater and Opera Director, London Deborah Warner is a Theatre and Opera Director. Her credits include productions for the National Theatre; English National Opera; Royal Opera House; Royal...
View ArticleHoelfhalveys, 79 degrees 60’ North 11.5 degrees East
SVALBARD. The cold coast – the mythical home of the Snow Queen’s palace in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of “The Snow Queen”. For long this was a land beyond the realm of maps, an imagined...
View ArticleChermisdeoya – Position N 80 degrees 31.774’ E 019 degrees 41.129’
We are at the most Northerly point of our expedition and, as it turns out, the furthest North that Cape Farewell has ever sailed. It’s just 560 nautical miles from here to the North Pole, but above us...
View ArticleKinnvika Bay cont.
KINNVIKA BAY cont. Fear, was where I left off… Wake at 4.00 a.m. to engine sounds and soon after to a sharp crack and crash which hits me full on in my port side tomb, and jumps me awake. We’ve clearly...
View ArticleSORGFIORDIN 79 degrees N 47 minutes
The emergency helicopter flew around us twice, checking our position and our safety, and almost as soon as it arrived set off back to Longyearbyen. Apparently the nearest vessel to us at this moment is...
View ArticleStill held in our holding bay
Still held in our holding bay, hiding from the ice. Yesterday morning we walked up to the crown of a vanished glacier – no doubt the strongest image of climate change on our tour so far. We set out...
View ArticleLiefdefjord [silence]
A Quaker upbringing with Sunday morning meetings for worship from the age of five has left me no stranger to silence, and as a theatre and opera director I’m keenly aware of its power. Samuel Beckett’s...
View Article14th July Glacier
Sunday 26th September. We are having a gentle day at the rather surprisingly named 14th July Glacier. A day at the beach with ice instead of sand. Everyone has something they want to play at. We all do...
View ArticleMonaco Glacier
“ … [Kay] has a splinter of glass in his heart, and another in his eye. These must come out or he’ll stay bewitched, and the Snow Queen will keep her hold over him forever!” “The Snow Queen” – Hans...
View ArticleTo the ends of the Earth
On her return from the 2010 expedition theatre director Deborah Warner writes for The Independent about discovering the hard, shattering truth about climate change and how she has to put it on stage....
View ArticleDeborah Warner
Theater and Opera Director, London Deborah Warner is a Theatre and Opera Director. Her credits include productions for the National Theatre; English National Opera; Royal Opera House; Royal...
View ArticleHoelfhalveys, 79 degrees 60’ North 11.5 degrees East
SVALBARD. The cold coast – the mythical home of the Snow Queen’s palace in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of “The Snow Queen”. For long this was a land beyond the realm of maps, an imagined...
View ArticleChermisdeoya – Position N 80 degrees 31.774’ E 019 degrees 41.129’
We are at the most Northerly point of our expedition and, as it turns out, the furthest North that Cape Farewell has ever sailed. It’s just 560 nautical miles from here to the North Pole, but above us...
View ArticleKinnvika Bay cont.
KINNVIKA BAY cont. Fear, was where I left off… Wake at 4.00 a.m. to engine sounds and soon after to a sharp crack and crash which hits me full on in my port side tomb, and jumps me awake. We’ve clearly...
View ArticleSORGFIORDIN 79 degrees N 47 minutes
The emergency helicopter flew around us twice, checking our position and our safety, and almost as soon as it arrived set off back to Longyearbyen. Apparently the nearest vessel to us at this moment is...
View ArticleStill held in our holding bay
Still held in our holding bay, hiding from the ice. Yesterday morning we walked up to the crown of a vanished glacier – no doubt the strongest image of climate change on our tour so far. We set out...
View ArticleLiefdefjord [silence]
A Quaker upbringing with Sunday morning meetings for worship from the age of five has left me no stranger to silence, and as a theatre and opera director I’m keenly aware of its power. Samuel Beckett’s...
View Article14th July Glacier
Sunday 26th September. We are having a gentle day at the rather surprisingly named 14th July Glacier. A day at the beach with ice instead of sand. Everyone has something they want to play at. We all do...
View ArticleMonaco Glacier
“ … [Kay] has a splinter of glass in his heart, and another in his eye. These must come out or he’ll stay bewitched, and the Snow Queen will keep her hold over him forever!” “The Snow Queen” – Hans...
View ArticleTo the ends of the Earth
On her return from the 2010 expedition theatre director Deborah Warner writes for The Independent about discovering the hard, shattering truth about climate change and how she has to put it on stage....
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