Offspring: Firesoul Wanted by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir

FIRESOUL WANTED by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kirstin likes cod and potatoes. Nothing else. Outside is violence but she knows Daniel has to work. It’s okay. It’s okay as long as he brings back cod and potatoes. As long as he comes back. When she sees an advertisement for a Firesoul in the paper she feels the pull. Could she be the one they are looking for?BIO
Kolbrún is an Icelandic playwright, director and dramaturg based in Edinburgh. Her play This Is a Gift premiered at Pitlochry Festival Theatre last summer and the Icelandic National Theatre in an Icelandic translation last autumn after being longlisted for the Women’s Prize for playwriting and selected as part of the new canon 37 Plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Previous credits include Deliverance (Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point), Kit Kat (Traverse Theatre Breakfast Plays) and (Can This Be) Home (New Territories Award 2018 Prague Fringe). Kolbrún was playwright in residence at the Reykjavík City Theatre ‘24-’26.ABOUT OFFSPRING
Launching Spring 2026, Offspring Festival was the first of two annual festivals curated by writer and director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir aka Kol. We now invite you to join us for the autumn festival, Offspring – Their Dark Materials, happening over two days in November with three full script readings, one scratch event and two networking events. Offspring Festival features three new plays that we think deserve love and a platform as well as extracts from folk that Offspring have not featured before. The goal with the festival is to make it easier for these pieces, and those to come, to find their audience and potential partners. The Kolective is about making connections. We hope you join us!Followed by free event Kolage – a mix and mingle event for writers and directors using scissors and glue.