We decided early on to invent not just a language, but an entire culture, something that felt vaguely familiar yet impossible to place. Think Icelandic-meets-Norwegian- meets-French-ish. A melting pot tongue for a people shaped by weather, love and survival. In creating Sólset, we weren’t trying to replicate a real place, but rather build a living relic of a culture facing hardships in a rapidly changing world. The story takes place during a time of great environmental upheaval and Sólset’s future hangs in the balance. Within this we follow an ensemble of characters navigating who they are, how they love and how to keep going when everything familiar is slipping away. Love in Sólset exists in many forms – tender, messy, fleeting, enduring, requited, unrequited. It ranges from friendships to long term partnerships to new love to heartbreak. These intimate stories may seem small against cataclysmic forces, but they are exactly what make survival worthwhile. After premiering at Perth Festival in 2019, Lé Nør [the rain] found early momentum before the world, like Sólset itself, was interrupted. Returning to the show now feels both necessary and hopeful. The questions it asks – about love, resilience, community and how we care for one another in uncertain times – feel even more resonant. This season is an opportunity to let the show live again, to share it with new audiences and to offer a reminder that joy, tenderness and beauty still matter. An image that came to us often while working on this show was of those musicians on the Titanic. Amid the chaos and destruction of the world around them, they chose to play beautiful music as they sank into the icy depths. At its heart, Lé Nør [the rain] is our love letter to humanity. A celebration of everything worth fighting for. This show is all about love, so it feels only appropriate that we have all fallen in love with this show. We hope you do too.
Adriane Daff, Arielle Gray, Chris Isaacs & Tim Watts
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