Emma Caird is in rehearsal for her new play about the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
But as rehearsals get underway, Emma is running into problems. Her longtime producer, Jerry, doubts the play has any commercial potential and stubbornly resists Emma’s desire to stage a play with a message. Two of her leading actors, who are Emma’s live-in lovers, are in turmoil about their three-way relationship. And Ernest Shackleton himself — the hero of her drama — doesn’t like his role. He wants Emma’s production to set him free from the burden of heroism that he has carried for a hundred years.
The Castillo Theatre presents a virtual live reading on Zoom of Jacqueline Salit’s Shackleton on Ice, directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander, by turns philosophical and comical, an exploration of exploration, of navigating an existential crisis, and of one woman’s vision of theatre as an instrument for change.
There will be some adult language – parental discretion advised.
