The Islanders

Synopsis

A lo-fi musical. In the late nineties, teenage couple Amy Mason and Eddie Argos went on holiday to the Isle of Wight. Thirteen years on their memories of the trip vary wildly. Through stories and songs they try to make sense of an island, a holiday and relationship that have become absurd in the retelling. Funny, refreshing and ultimately moving, The Islanders is a show that about memory, first-loves and growing up that weaves words, sound, music and story.

Our Review:

Simon Harvey-Williams - 18 April 2013

It’s easy to look back on your adolescent years with either a fuzzy warm ‘wonder years’ style nostalgic gaze or alternatively to squirm at the memory of the sheer awkwardness of it all. Amy Mason’s The Islanders manages to poignantly combine both perspectives in a piece which feels both personal but also entirely universal. Through simple story-telling, music, slides and film Amy reflects on her holiday to the Isle of Wight with her then boyfriend Eddie Argos (now of the band Art Brut). On the surface this is a simple recollection of a particular time in Mason’s life but for me it ends up being about so much more.

The show recounts Amy’s courtship with Eddie, from the initial awkward encounter at an indie disco through to the big step of moving in together. Her narrative mainly focuses on the first holiday the couple took together on the Isle of Wight, which both cemented and tested their relationship. The experience showed that these kinds of episodes in adolescence t...

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