As we approach the new millennium, it is of added interest to be taken back 1,000 years to life as recounted through the Icelandic Sagas, when Erik the Red and his kin explored and opened up new worlds. The Saga of Gudridur, written and directed by Brynja Benediktsdottir, is the story of the eponymous woman whose extraordinary life is told here in the form of a one-actor play.

Tristan Gribbin plays the role, in a compelling reincarnation of her adventurous subject. She addresses the audience as her granddaughters, and starts the narrative with a perilous voyage bringing wood from Norway to Greenland, when her ship encountered another with news of a marvellous land to the west. But plague took her husband, and she was to remarry and have other adventures before she could seek that new world.

Against a backdrop of an early map, with crude outlines and sea monsters, Ms Gribbin brings life to a fascinating story in a performance of real strength. She conveys a sense of a world of beginnings, when Thor clashed with Christ, and the world was a daunting and superstitious place. There are also Icelandic and Swedish versions of the work now playing, in a worthy celebration of that earlier millennium.

Continues to 21st November; to book phone 01-676-3071/ 660-7109