Albatross by Martha Loader (WINNER - GEORGE DEVINE AWARD 2025)

Presented by Menagerie Theatre Company

 Albatross, takes us to the very boundaries of love in the age of climate anxiety.  Do our deep family ties make us act with more care or blind to catastrophe?

Alice, a successful scientist, returns from a gruelling Antarctic trip, to her daughter Alba and her mother Eve.  There's been a flood, a new romance and now a strange gift.  It’s 1.30am.  Alba sleeps.  Eve has never been more awake, preoccupied by thoughts of freedom from a life of commitment to others.  And Alice?  Maybe those cracks she discovered in the Antarctic ice have followed her home.  And maybe they’re also willing her to go back…

Award-winning Martha Loader is one of the finest young playwrights working in Britain today.  Albatross explores how we mess up, when we just want to make things better.  It is both explosive and tender.  It speaks to anyone who’s ever cared about the future.  It reveals the human heart to be more vulnerable than we hope but stronger than we believe.