This youth theatre project involved two writers, who created very interesting and very different stories around the theme of science.
‘A Beastly Tale’
Imagine if you will 1000 years into the future and the world is ruled by animals. A small group of animal actors come together to play out a love story set in a laboratory which uses humans to test medicines that can cure the animal kingdom of such terrible afflictions as ‘dog breath’ and ‘the big k’.This play by Evie Dickson raised many questions and debates popular with young people regarding the sacrifice of a few for the good of many, where our moral boundaries lie and if they might change were we to look at things from a smaller, furrier perspective.
Our second writer, Kate Sweeney, created ‘Curiosity’. This took the form of a modern day poetic fable following 3 cloned individuals on the same journey for 3 different reasons. A bolt of lightening splits the second at a crucial moment of indecision. Each single person becomes two, with two options as to the way forward. What will they decide, and who will make it home? How do we go about making our everyday decisions? Are the outcomes predetermined by our internal coding - or are our conditioning and the expectations imposed by others the dominant factors?
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