The Minack
& Shattered Windscreen
In 2001, Shattered Windscreen made our début at the Minack with a stage adaptation of Peter Barnes’ TV play Arabian Nights. We returned in 2003 with that epic of the French cinema, Les Enfants du Paradis. Then followed with Peter Pan (2005), The True Story of Martin Guerre (2007), Coram Boy (2009) and Cyrano de Bergerac (2011). In 2013 came the rib-tickling spoof western, Wild Oats, and in 2017 Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of The Wicked Lady. Such ventures typify the company’s commitment to developing and adapting new and existing works for the stage, playing to full and appreciative audiences.
In 2015, Shattered Windscreen won the Minack Trophy with John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath, the story of the Joad family’s flight from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California’s golden west. They were named runners up for their 2019 production of I, Don Quixote when the weather wasn’t at all kind to us and we had two and a half shows called off. We’re hoping for better weather this year, and are very much looking forward to coming back in August with a big production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. See you then!