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
"An excellent piece of work"
Liverpool Sound and Vision
Narvik
★★★★"Compelling, at times almost poetic, storytelling"
Liverpool ECHO
Narvik
★★★★"A thrillingly theatrical encapsulation of a little-known theatre of war."
The Guardian