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A Royal Lyceum Theatre Company production in association with the Edinburgh International Festival and Karine Polwart.
An immersive musical essay. A meditation on sanctuary. A moor walker’s journal. A personal memoir of maternity. An archeology of flight science and football, medieval medicine and compassion. A wonder tale.
Wind Resistance brings together poetry, song, politics, personal reflection and story in a mesmerising performance by singer-songwriter Karine Polwart.
Karine Polwart Writer, composer & performer
David Greig Dramaturg
Wils Wilson Director
Camilla Clarke Set and costume designer
Pippa Murphy Composer and sound designer
Jessica Ward Stage manager on the book & technician
2017-2018
Whispered through grasses and sphagnum, yet shouted out from the heights of the hills surrounding Edinburgh, musician Karine Polwart’s foray into theatre is a thing of beauty and understanding. She has taken a fragile story of love and immense tragedy set in the lonely sky-kissed and unremarkable heather wetland of Fala Moor, and woven from it a piece of theatre that speaks of universal concerns with power and authority.
The Stage
This is a poignant, unflinching and beautiful show about healing, protection, the fragility of human life and the world around it. Its music will resonate for a long time.
Charlotte Runcie – The Telegraph
The sound designer Pippa Murphy accompanied Polwart on a camping trip to Fala Moor to record the sounds from the sky, in the grasses and under the water of the lochan for the show. And so, knitted into Polwart’s music, we hear the chirping of a water boatman, the loudest animal on Earth relative to its body size, and the swooping calls of thousands of pink-footed geese.
