Lost At Sea

In a nutshell:
AN OCEAN JOURNEY ACROSS THE GLOBE •
HUNDREDS OF YELLOW RUBBER DUCKS •
INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S THEATRE

The intention of the arts is not always to communicate or educate, or even to reach people’s hearts rather than their minds but to inspire enquiry through discovery. 

There’s no more evocative and terrifying image of climate change and the selfish wastefulness of humanity than that of the Great Pacific garbage patch, a swirling vortex of plastic and rubbish swirling around a great gyre somewhere in the region of Hawaii.

In this piece for children and young people, commissioned by the Edinburgh International Science Festival and produced by award winning company Catherine Wheels, playwright Morna Pearson and director Gill Robertson partly reclaim this image as just one facet of the power of nature and possibility.  

Performing on a large map of planet Earth, Ashley Smith and Laurie Brown are a teenage girl and boy on opposite sides of the world. They’re united by 28,000 rubber ducks which were lost at sea, when a shipping container was washed off the deck of a ship sailing out of Hong Kong in 1992.

The boy’s life is marked by migration and movement, from the Highlands of Scotland to Australia before moving to Alaska and finally Hawaii. In Hawaii he finds 98 of the ducks washed ashore, earning unwanted media fame as ‘Duck Boy’. On the Isle of Harris, meanwhile, the girl yearns to find just one of the ducks on her local beach, researching currents and paths of travel between oceans to determine whether this is even remotely possible.

Lost at Sea promises to entertain and offer insight to the world of oceanography through an awfully big adventure with scientific lessons subtly but firmly delivered.

Years 4- 8
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Lost at Sea is also touring the 4 corners of Auckland.
Please contact the team on 09 374 0316 or e mail here if you would like to host 2 matinees on 1 day at your school for up to 120 students per matinee. Cost $10 per student. 

Extras for teachers - resources and links for pre or post show discoveries.
Ducks Overboard       
The Epic Journey of the Plastic Ducks  
Moby Duck
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Photograph: Kat Gollock

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Commissioned by Edinburgh International Science Festival working in partnership with Imaginate, and supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund.