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A
(Bearded) Lady
BLESSING
HER HEART
Break-Upocalypse
Carnival
Of Chaos: "Survival Tips For The Reckless"
Cemetery
Golf
Cockroach
De
Rerum Natura; Or, Love The One You Whip
Eat,
Pray, Laugh!
Fists
of Funny
FOOL
FOR A CLIENT
The
Fox
The
Frank Diary of Anne
The
Godling
Hell,
The Musical
I
Prefer Fur
Inside
Private Lives
J.Lo.Hew
JESUS
IN MONTANA: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult
Knitting
LandEscape
Legs
and All
Marriage:
a queer institution
MISSING:
fugue #9: wear a warm coat
No
Ordinary Nut
Open
Season, A Queer Performance Spectacular
Play
4 Play
Poste
Restante
PUBLIC
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Comedy and Justice for All
Pulp
Scripture
Recess
Searching
for the Voice of the Third
Show
No Show
Spider
Baby the musical
Suicide
Me!
The
Surprise
The
Tao of Everest
Tater
Stew
tempestuous(ness)
or HIStory is Told by the Victors
The
Texas Chainsaw Musical!
Theatre
of the Battle
Ticonderoga
The
Unbearable Lightness of Raya
| The Tao of Everest EXIT Stage Left WEDNESDAY 9 7:00 PM SATURDAY 12 1:00 PM SUNDAY 13 5:30 PM TUESDAY 15 10:00 PM FRIDAY 18 7:00 PM SUNDAY 20 7:00 PM |
by Ian Woodall SOLO PERFORMANCE, NOT FOR PEOPLE UNDER 10 |
While attempting Everest Ian stopped just below the summit to help a dying American friend. Her first words were, 'Don't leave me'. Yet Ian had to leave her for the safety of his own team. Nine years later Ian returned to bury his friend. After wrapping her in the Stars and Stripes he slid her gently down the North Face to join her husband lying somewhere below. Triumph, tragedy, storms and summits. Embark on an emotional and uplifting storytelling experience to the top of the world! 'One hell of a storyteller' (Times Herald-Record) 'Funny, exciting, and truly inspirational' (Hospital Trust)
Media Information
The American climber Ian was forced to leave behind, and who he subsequently went back nine years later to bury, was Francys (Frankie) Arsentiev from Norwood, Colorado.
Frankie had just become the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without using supplementary bottled oxygen, an amazing feat of courage and endurance. Tragically she did not make it back down to receive the accolades her achievement deserved.
Frankie was married to Serguei Arsentiev who, eight years earlier, had
become the first Russian to climb Mount Everest without bottled oxygen,
an achievement which resulted in him being presented with the National Friendship
Medal by President Gorbachev. Frankie and Seguei had met
while climbing in the Himalaya and had immediately fallen in love. After
sneaking away to get married at the Soviet Consulate in Kathmandu they were
affectionately known as the Romeo and Juliet of the Cold War. They later
settled in Norwood where Serguei built them a home of their own. It would
seem that at some point during their climb back down from the summit of
Everest Serguei fell down the north face.
Ian Woodall(Director & Performer)Biography
Ian was born in England, but then spent twenty-two years in South Africa,
before returning to the UK. Between 1996 and 2007 Ian conceived, planned
and led five expeditions to Mount Everest, reaching the summit on two occasions.
Before embarking on his Everest expeditions Ian worked as a school teacher, a catering manager, an internal auditor, as well as serving as an officer in the British Army. Ian lives in the Principality of Andorra, deep in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between France and Spain.