The Butterfly Collector @ Bassenthwaite Parish Rooms

18th October 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)

Bassenthwaite Parish Room

Peter Macqueen performs his one-person shows directed by Grace Kirby.

As well as a successful actor and writer, Peter Macqueen is a keen amateur naturalist with a particular passion for butterflies and moths. 'The Butterfly Collector' brings both these strands of his life together by exploring very personal experiences of the effects of climate change. He draws on childhood memories of happy holidays collecting butterflies (he uses a camera now!) and sets them against the drastic attempt to rescue that collection (and those memories) fifty years later, when Storm Desmond flooded more than 7,000 homes in Cumbria, including his own. The play is set some time in the future. Storms are so frequent they have serial numbers instead of names and butterflies remember them? Are too few to count. Meet a man sat on a tower of furniture a chair on a box on a table having a picnic. Is the water rising or receding? And even though it's practically the end of the world, there are moth jokes.

https://www.pmacproductions.co.uk/

Please note this show has been amended due to unforeseen circumstances so 'Nancy's Orange' will not be performed as previously stated.

Age guidance: 12+ and adults

Direct contact for Bassenthwaite Village Hall: Claire Webzell – 07949294072