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Elbow Deep
City girl Agnes moves to a remote Scottish island when her husband James inherits the struggling family farm. Leaving behind stressful jobs and the pain of successive baby losses, they now face a close-knit community, a wild landscape, and a hundred sheep who are constantly looking for inventive ways to die. As a crucial lambing season approaches, Agnes and James must face their grief. Will Agnes learn to trust her body again, and can James bring the once-treasured farm back from the brink? Elbow Deep is a funny, heartfelt folk musical about what it takes to build a new life.
Heartfelt folk comedy drama
Pre-first draft; storyboard, songs and sample scenes
Seeking partners for further development, workshopping and commission
Baby loss, bereavement, animal death
Cast of 4-5 actor-musicians
Meet the Writers
Elinor Peregrin
Elinor is a composer, writer and MD from Birmingham. She is also an actor, folk musician, and classically-trained multi-instrumentalist. She… Read more
Elinor Peregrin
Elinor is a composer, writer and MD from Birmingham. She is also an actor, folk musician, and classically-trained multi-instrumentalist. She trained at Guildhall in music, and at LAMDA in acting. Theatre includes: Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse); Pericles & Macbeth (RSC); Emilia, Titus Andronicus & The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare‘s Globe); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance, Cockpit & Vault Festival); The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin Theatre), The Red Side of the Moon (Iris Theatre); Far Out (Omnibus); Our Town, Constellations, Consent & Twelfth Night (LAMDA). Composition includes: The Penelopiad (University of Birmingham); The Tempest (Theatre Ark); Twelfth Night (LAMDA); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance, Cockpit & Vault Festival). She plays trombone and sackbut for orchestras and ensembles across the UK; her specialism is in contemporary and early music. Elinor also sings and plays bodhrán and guitar both as a solo folk artist and with her band, The Mistakings. Having recently performed at a number of folk festivals and released the Mistakings’ Five Songs EP, she is working towards the release of her debut solo album. Elinor’s new musical about sheep farming, Elbow Deep, is being developed with the support of Birmingham Hippodrome’s New Musical Theatre department.
Team
Composer and writer – Elinor Peregrin
Cast:
Elinor Peregrin
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