A young couple move from the city to a remote Scottish island and slowly try to find their place in a rooted community with a rich storytelling culture. Mainlanders explores the fantasy of starting a new life on a far-off island, looking at the rise of the work-from-home trend and how it changes our relationship to our environment.

Bringing the coastal space into the performance space, Mainlanders connects the industrialised time of ecological destruction to modern work routines and is woven together by a storytelling podcast that ebbs and flows throughout, filtering Scottish folklore through its para-social dynamics. Mainlanders is a quiet, meditative piece that draws together movement, sound and devised theatre to reflect on the nature of belonging and the possibility for transformation amidst the loneliness of physical and social isolation.