Theatre Double Bill

Theatre Double Bill.
The Rum Plants by Phil Baarda
Mallory - Beyond Everest by John Burns

The Rum Plants by Phil Baarda: During the 1940s, the British botanical elite were increasingly sceptical of the huge number of rare plants working-class Professor Heslop Harrison was finding on the island of Rum, and despatch classicist and amateur botanist John Raven to investigate.

What appears to be simple case of distinguishing truth from fraud becomes a back-biting tale of scientific elitism and one-upmanship, where class, ambition, arrogance and thwarted love have as much to play as botanical integrity.

This is a humorous and engaging re-telling of real events that continue to reverberate in scientific circles today.

Mallory - Beyond Everest by John Burns: Life and Death on the Roof of the World
George Mallory and Sandy Irvine vanished into the mist high on Everest in 1924 and were never seen alive again.

Were they the first men to climb the world’s highest mountain? In this dramatic one-man play John Burns asks one question: if George Mallory had survived what demons would have haunted him?