Stories at the End of the World | a history of seismic friendship

Hey, what’s the worst that could happen? In Stories at the End of the World all kinds of ‘the worst’ are explored as the main character dives into her diary to bring us up-to-date with where she is, and who she is.

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Swoon

The story reflects her relationship with her male best friend. But refreshingly, this isn’t a love story. This isn’t a romance. That said, you swoon along with the on-stage chemistry. If this were one of those TV shows or had one of those audiences, you’d be shouting at them to get together, however misguided. Instead, they remain unnamed and tied through the history of their friendship.

Spinning memories

That friendship is seismic in its own small way, but it’s big for them as it churns, rumbles and reforms from teens through twenties. It’s all captured in words: in the words of the diary and the words of the performance, where Marina O’Shea does the heavy lifting, elevating and spinning memories into something more tangible as she shares the tales. It could almost be a one-woman show, if it weren’t for Charlie Whitworth, whose warm but minimal interjections offer a comfortable and safe hue.

Charlie also directs the performance which travels from an underwhelming camping trip to a time when dinosaurs did and didn’t walk the earth. Not bad for a set consisting of just one stool.

Adventure

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They fit together less yin and yang, more pivot and hinge. Charlie is calm and grounded with a streak of childish adventure. Marina is weighed down by facts, but, as she says, context is everything.

Scaling the peaks and troughs of a diary going back to her school days, Marina is thoughtful and off-hand, bored and exuberant, doubtful and convinced, scared and sad as she evolves from smart girl misfit to smart woman misfit.

Ripe and relevant

Stories At The End Of The World was written by Corinne Furness way back in 2014, but the irresistible relationship and science-spanning story, in an age when we’re told scientists are listened to despite experts being reviled, makes it not only ripe but relevant.

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