With musician Tim Dalling
This is a performance consisting of stories and music, with musician Tim Dalling, that is both a poetic and a scientific evocation of seabirds. It highlights the wonder in seabirds and threats to their populations, combining folktale, natural history and personal life-stories to create a single piece embroidered with Hebridean, Icelandic and Siberian music.
'...a curious blend of photo-documentary, autobiography, romantic quest and Nordic saga with nary a dull moment, delivered with great verve and wit by these two poetic champions.'
Bristol Review
It moved me...a unique show from people who understood and cared about birds.
David Lea, Deputy Director of the RSPB, 1970’s
'It opened a world of beauty, loss, longing and timeless truth through personal and mythic story. It balanced gracefully the tones of the sincere and heartfelt and the light and loose, never losing it's footing but letting the audience know they were on the edge! Malcolm and Tim embodied the birds and we flew with them. It's not often these days we recover our awareness of the basic kinship of all nature's community. And this thanks to a couple of blokes and a blackboard...'
Joshua Gabila