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Boat Memory archiveIn 1830, a British Admiralty ship at anchor off the bleak coast of Patagonia has one of its landing boats stolen by the native Indians. In reprisal, the young Captain takes four aboriginal teenagers hostage - three boys and a girl, and brings them back to England, to convert them to Christianity. He plans to return them in three years in order to set up a trading station, and names the girl Fuegia Basket, and the three boys York Minster, Jemmy Button, and Boat Memory, for the lost canoe. Boat Memory dies of smallpox on arrival in England, but the others go to the very first Church of England parish school, in the sleepy, smart little village of Walthamstow, where their education begin. Fuegia, Jemmy and York adapt so well, that within nine months they are presented at the court of St James - what triumph! But the community of Walthamstow finds itself as affected by the three powerful young strangers, as they do by their alien environment.

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Author: Laline Paull

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Archive listings for Boat Memory (2009)

Work type: Play.

T1500849746

Endorsed by the Embassy of Brazil. Running time - 70 mins. Nearest tube - Bayswater, Queensway or Notting Hill Gate. Mon Jul 27 - post show talk by Laline Paull, followed by a Launch Event for Generation Theatre with Brazilian style entertainment and refreshments. Running time 70 minutesProducer Faith Sutherland. Company Generation Theatre.
27 Jul 09 to 31 Jul 09General, Inner London :: V1231
listing details L2008144693

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