"Skylines, snowlines, fishing lines, washing lines: the ties that bind.”

So begins the programme for the new work by Wanaka playwright Annabel Wilson set to have its local debut next month with a "showing of moments”. 

The still-evolving play, called ‘No Science To Goodbye’, will be showcased on Saturday November 12 at The Rippon Hall through a presentation of moments from the work with music and spoken word woven in.

"It’s more than a rehearsed reading, it will be performed scripts down,” Annabel told the Wanaka App, saying the "showing of moments” would be a key part of the development phase of the work, which is set in an alpine town similar to Wanaka. The show will be followed by a Q & A session with the audience.

In the play, Elsie, an expat writer, returns to her hometown to look after her terminally-ill brother, and finds herself confronted by past. The story had its genesis in the creative section of Annabel’s Master's thesis, ‘Aspiring Daybook’, which she completed in 2014 for her Masters in Creative Writing through Massey University, and for which she received a Distinction grade.

A former English teacher at Mount Aspiring College. Annabel has been working on the script while living in Wellington, where she moved earlier this year to spend time focussing on her writing. The play is being directed by another MAC alumnus, the school’s former Head of Drama Anna Shaw. Set designer Ivy Urquhart also attended MAC as a teenager.

They are joined by a cast of Wellington actors, Frankie Berge, Calvin Petersen and Jack Sergent-Shadbolt, as well as Electric Wire Hustle's Cory Champion, who created the soundscapes for ‘No Science To Goodbye’.

Annabel was this year named the 2016 R.A.K. Mason Writing Fellow, which earned her a residency in the Wairarapa to work on the play, and has received support from the Central Lakes Arts Support Scheme to bring the work to Wanaka.

Earlier this year she also won the inaugural AAWP/UWRF Emerging Writers' Prize, awarded by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, for her poem ‘Quire’.

See ‘No Science To Goodbye - Moments from a new play’ at The Rippon Hall on Saturday November 12 from 4pm.to 5pm.

Get tickets here: http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/no-science-to-goodbye-moments-from-new-play/wanaka

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