Title: Toshie
Description: It is a 2-hour play with songs and music based on the life of James McIntosh, a Dundee whaler who, during an episode in the Arctic in 1884 known as The Chieftain Disaster, lost both his legs to frostbite.
SUMMARY: Since losing both legs to frostbite in an incident off Greenland, Toshie has kept his own council about what happened. Then he is visited at home by Captain Robert Falcon Scott who is seeking survival advice prior to his fateful expedition to Antarctica. "Tell me your story"-- to Scott a simple request. But Toshie, who could never refuse to obey a Captain, knows that he will have to relive a journey that will take him back, not just to the stark frozen wastes of the Arctic, but into the deepest, darkest reaches of his soul.
Subjects: Dundee whaler, The Chieftain
Places: Dundee, Iceland
People: James McIntosh, Robert Falcon Scott
Time periods: 1884