A solo, storytelling play - with music
Written and performed by Jess Morgan
37 year old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence.
Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds – kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes.
The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.
Jess Morgan is a writer, musician and theatre-maker based in Norwich. With a background in music spanning some fourteen years, her songs have been backed by BBC Radio 2 and 6 MUSIC. Her music has seen her perform and tour extensively throughout the UK, Europe and North America in small venues and theatres - and just once, the O2 Arena. Jess was also a writer in residence with the British Council crossing Canada by train, and collaborating with Indigenous artists, and recently with The National Centre For Writing and Norwich Research Park, producing new writing collaborating with plant/crop research scientists. Jess is an Associate Artist at The Sainsbury Centre Art Gallery and Museum and an Associate Artist also with Norwich Arts Centre.