1998 - Lemon Sisters

The Icelandic Take Away Theater
Director: John Wright
Actors: Vala Thorsdottir, Ágústa Skúladóttir
Written in collaboration

Productions

The Pleasance London, Newcastle, and the Edinburgh Fringe, 1998.

It was considered one of five best plays at Edinburgh Fringe, by The Scotsman.

Lemon Sisters is an hour-long play, with very little dialogue (perhaps 5 sentences) about two sisters who survive by collecting seaweed by the shore in Iceland in an unknown era. It is a dark and grotesque clown show with a mountain of seaweed, giving the audience a real sense of the seaside, experiencing the simple joys of the two sisters and their heartbreaking tragedy. The set was simple in its complexity made by two Icelandic artists, a wooden multifunctional juggernaut by Daniel Magnusson, and the seaweed landscape, seaweed masks, seaweed puppet, and costumes by Katrin Thorvaldsdottir.

No script exists for this piece.