THE LAST ONE

When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all. She doesn’t expect that soon she’ll be able to reel off every ice cream flavour there is or that she’ll know all the tunes an ice cream van can play, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with the van’s owner Brian.

An honest look at climate change, grief, and changing landscapes in British seaside towns, Cornish playwright Zoe Alker’s new play asks why we ignore the signs the weather is sending us, and what life on the British coastlines could look like if we do.