The Starling Hotline

What is it?

The Starling Hotline is a solo, storytelling play - with music, written and performed by Jess Morgan. The story is interspersed by sound recordings recordings – the voice-acting of some truly bright talents from the Norwich theatrical scene, and some of the East Coast’s most brilliant birds.

This is a show about climate, community and birds.

Running time approximately 1 hour

What’s it about?

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.