Conquest of the South Pole

 'Conquest of the South Pole' is a funny, moving play about the soul-eroding problem of long-term unemployment, in which four disabled friends stave off the despair of joblessness by re-enacting Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole.

The play received considerable critical acclaim when first performed in the 1980s and although unemployment may not be the headline issue it was then, it is now presented, for the first time, by a group of disabled actors and directors; with disabled people twice as likely to be unemployed as the population in general, this piece resonates strongly with the modern-day experience of disability.