Farewell Dinner for the Nimrod Crew

My new play recreates the meal, toasts, speeches and songs from the Canterbury Club's celebration of Shackleton and his crew on the eve of their Antarctic adventure.

The Story

The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three successful expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton.

Although the expedition's profile was initially much lower than that of Scott's six years earlier, its achievements attracted widespread interest and made Shackleton a …