The Starling Hotline

a solo, storytelling play - with music
written and performed by Jess Morgan

37 year old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence.

Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds – kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes.

The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.

There will be a limited run of Work-in-progress Performances :

Sunday 14th July - Green Note, Camden, London
https://www.greennote.co.uk/production/jess-morgan/

Thursday 18th July - Cafe #9, Sheffield
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/607861

Sunday 21st July - Norwich Arts Centre
https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/the-starling-hotline-by-jess-morgan/

Friday 20th September - Cley Marshes, Norfolk Wildlife Trust
tickets tbc.

Please see my SHOWS page for more information.

This show features a number of original modern folk songs and the voice-acting of some truly bright talents from the Norwich theatrical scene. The Starling Hotline is supported by Arts Council England and co-commissioned by Norwich Arts Centre.

Running time approximately 1 hour