Meet Pasiphae: a socialite with a rural past striving for fame as a Lady Boxer. 

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Minos: a Bristol MP and energy tycoon hoping to leave behind a glittering legacy.

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Naucrate: a domestic cleaner trying to make a home in this port city that is not hers.

 

And Daedalus: an up and coming designer determined to make a name for himself on the River Severn. 

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Longing for an heir, Minos adopts a strange creature from a travelling circus and commissions Daedalus to design a home for it in his labyrinthine mine. When Naucrate and Daedalus’ son, Icarus, wanders into the mine and befriends 'The Little Bull Boy' the two children begin making a pair of wings to take them up and away.

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A radical re-imagining of an ancient Greek myth for an industrial age, ICARUS IN BRISTOL asks how, when the worst happens, we can move beyond breakdown to recovery: reaching across dividing lines to build our own set of wings.

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Polly is currently developing the script for ICARUS IN BRISTOL with support from The RCS Innovation Studio and NCACE.

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You can read about her explorations with community gardeners, supported by NCACE here.

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The project is a development of Polly's 2013 exploration of the Icarus story, Bright Child: Icarus Reforged.

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Contact Polly for more information about the project here.