Simon Armitage was commissioned in 1996 by the National Theatre in London to write 'Eclipse' for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people. The play was inspired by the real-life disappearance of a girl in Hebden Bridge, and set at the time of the 1999 solar eclipse in Cornwall. Six friends are interviewed by the police after the disappearance of Lucy Lime, the strange unnerving girl whom they met on the beach beneath the cliffs. Each in turn goes into an interview room and makes a statement about the version of events which is either the one being remembered or the one being created. Between the monologues there is a series of flashbacks to the day when the eclipse occurred and Lucy Lime appears and disappears. 'Eclipse' was first produced at the Cottesloe Theatre in London in 2004.