The Tarragon Theatre will present an online reading of David Young’s Inexpressible Island from May 11 to May 13. 

INEXPRESSIBLE ISLAND

A play by David Young
Directed by Richard Rose

Sound design by Verne Good
Stage Directions by Briony Glassco


In 1912 three  Royal Navy officers and three ordinary seamen were stranded  in Antarctica with no winter clothing or food.  They dug a snow cave. They killed penguins and seals and stacked them up like cord wood.  

And they survived, against impossible odds, for  five months in the  pitch black, howling hurricane that is an Antarctic winter.

This play, based on these actual events, is an imagining of what actually happened inside that ice cave.

It is a survival saga that will help us survive our current predicament.

The reading features some of the original cast from the premiere in 1997.

R.H. Thomson
Eric Peterson
Greg Ellwand
Victor Ertmanis
Julian Richings
Rick Roberts

Streaming FREE from Tarragon Theatre’s YouTube channel

Monday, May 11, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Inexpressible Island - Act 1

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Inexpressible Island - Act 2

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Inexpressible Island - Act 3