Hundred Words for Snow

Title: Hundred Words for Snow
Author: Hennessy, Tatty
Price: $29.99

VAULT Origins Award - 2018

Winner - Heretic Voices Monologue Competition - 2018

Rory's dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally, he was a geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls. And when he dies suddenly in an accident, Rory knows she needs to make one last expedition.

With a plastic compass and Dad's ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole. Before Mum finds out they've gone.

Tatty Hennessy's play A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It's a coming-of-age story. With polar bears.

This edition also includes the diary of her research trip to the Arctic Circle, and the short play Distant Early Warning, set in 2053 in what was once Greenland.

A Hundred Words for Snow is also available in the volume Heretic Voices: Three Award-winning Monologues.

Its a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dads ashes in your backpack.


'Inspired and fast-paced, filled with taut observations and brilliant humour [has] creativity and joy running throughout' - LondonTheatre1
'A real gem warm, witty, and like its central character, heavily layered' - The Stage
'A blockbuster of how the very pointless nature of human endeavor is what makes us so brilliant' - Exeunt Magazine

Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781848428256
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping