As the bryologist and Native American storyteller Robin Wall Kimmerer observed in her poetic meditation on moss, “finding the words is another step in learning to see.” Losing the words, then, is ceasing to see - a peculiar and pervasive form of blindness that dulls the shimmer of the world, a disability particularly dangerous to the young imagination just learning to apprehend the world through language. But because language is our primary sieve of perception, our mightiest means of describing what we apprehend and thus comprehending it, words also belong to that which they describe - or, rather, they are the conduit of belonging between us and the world we perceive.
“In each word, all words,” the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot writes a generation later as he considers the dual power of language to conceal and to reveal. Moving, joyful and funny, The Lost Spells is for anyone who wants to celebrate and save the natural world around us - be that in the city or countryside, before it’s lost forever.“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf’s melodious voice unspools in the only surviving recording of her speech - a 1937 love letter to language.
As she journeys through the wild world, she meets a host of wonderful characters on a fantastical adventure like no other she learns the dandelion time, meets a boy who turns into a seal, flies with band of jackdaws and battles with conkers - on a quest to find that which was once lost.Ī fun, wild and boisterous adventure full of paw-tapping music and dancing, played live on-stage by talented actor-musicians, The Lost Spells is a riot of colour and a new Alice in Wonderland, celebrating the magic, power and wonder of nature that could be just outside your window.Īdapted from the ‘cultural phenomenon’ and bestselling book that has delighted and inspired people of all ages, by globally renowned writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. Moths appear from nowhere Owls light up the dark a Red Fox leads the way down a rabbit hole to a brand new wonderland. The Lost Spells A New Musical Based on the book by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie MorrisĪ Goblin, Watford Palace Theatre, Polka & Theatre by the Lake Co-ProductionĪ girl with no name finds a magical book of spells that conjures up a wild world.
★★★ ★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Stage ★★★★★ Musical Theatre Review ★★★★★ Theatre Weekly ★★★★ Fairy Powered Productions ★★★★ Broadway World
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