Albatross
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'Your generation. You owe us a future. A chance at one at least.'
When glaciologist Alice returns from Antarctica to her daughter Alba and her mother Eve, she finds that everything has changed. There's been a flood, a funeral, and a new romance.
Maybe those cracks she discovered in the Antarctic ice have followed her home...
Urgent and explosive, Albatross takes us to the very boundaries of love and devotion in the age of climate catastrophe, asking what we're willing to sacrifice for a better future. Martha Loader's play was commissioned and first produced by Menagerie Theatre on a tour of the UK in 2026.
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Martha Loader is a writer, producer and actor.
Her writing for the stage includes: Albatross (Menagerie Theatre Company, 2026); Bindweed (Mercury Originals/HighTide/New Wolsey/Royal Exchange Theatre, 2024); Splinter (Play Nicely Theatre, Eastern Angles); Cuckoo (INK Festival, schools tour); and Phenomenon (Hotbed Festival, Cambridge Junction).
Bindweed won the Judges' Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022. Loader won the Award for Promising Young Playwright at INK Festival 2019. She is an alumnus of the Mercury Playwrights, Soho Writers' Lab and HighTide Writers programmes.
