A new play with songs by Lizzie Nunnery
“If I was to throw myself beneath that tide... If I was to let the water take me, 'til the cold felt like heat, like love...”
Present day. Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and loses consciousness.
World War Two. Norway. A young sailor with a heart full of hope, longing and courage falls in love.
Narvik tells the story of a Liverpudlian man and a Norwegian woman pulled together and torn apart by war as the events of one summer cause ripples across an ocean of time.
Award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery (The Swallowing Dark, Intemperance) explores her dual creative strands – writer and singer/songwriter – to conjure a play where music and words meet, creating a patchwork of memory and dream, truth and fantasy. Inspired by tales of Naval veterans, Narvik brings to life a powerful story of love, guilt, heroism and betrayal.
A Box of Tricks production in association with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Developed with support from the e&P Talent Fund
Cast
Joe Shipman
Jim Callaghan
Lucas Smith
Kenny Atwood / Jim’s Father
Nina Yndis
Else Dahl / Lucya
Company
Director Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder
Designer Maeve Black
Composers Martin Heslop & Vidar Norheim
Producer Amy Fisher
Movement Elinor Randle
Musicians Lizzie Nunnery, Martin Heslop & Vidar Norheim
Dramaturg Lindsay Rodden
Casting Peter Hunt
Reviews
Narvik
"A strong script, with excellent performances all round"
Purple Revolver
Narvik
★★★★"Compelling, at times almost poetic, storytelling"
Liverpool ECHO
Narvik
"An excellent piece of work"
Liverpool Sound and Vision
Narvik
★★★★"A thrillingly theatrical encapsulation of a little-known theatre of war."
The Guardian