STORY: Rag and Bone, a pair of urban foxes, watch helplessly as their home becomes a dumping ground for broken appliances, furniture and other G.R.O.T.s – Get Rid Of That! Then LT250, an obsolete laptop, arrives on the Trash Truck and begins to search the Internet for help. The Wasteland Warriors pick up his message and soon come to the rescue. Thanks to them the allotment and G.R.O.T.s are restored to their former usefulness.
Key Stages 1 - 4 (age 5 - 16) ; duration approximately 1 hour ; Part Two can be performed as an abbreviated version. Cross Curricular Aspects include science, ecology, geography, language, literacy, citizenship, music, dance, drama, art and design.
CAST – 24 speaking parts, 7 solo singing parts, 3 choruses and 13 footnotes; in Order of Appearance: Narrator; Rag and Bone – foxes; Trash Truck Crew; G.R.O.T.s – as described above; Grub, Maggot and Wormy – industrious minibeasts, the original recyclers; Chorus of Minibeasts; Slick – menacing fossil fuel trapped in a can; LT250 – laptop, speaking in a robotic voice; Bulky Waste – three actors in unison make up this tatty sofa; Goggle Box – black-and-white television with a BBC accent; Velocity – rusty mountain bike; Drip – sniffy fridge full of junk food; Carry – plastic-bag Country and Western singer; Chorus of Plastic Bags; Cash – down-and-out supermarket trolly with a wonky wheel; Grandad – sentimental pensioner and Wasteland Warrior; Marigold – bossy but well-meaning gardner, Wasteland Warrior; Jess, Sim, Charlie, Alex, Krish, Nicky – young Wasteland Warriors; Stickle and Tickle - a pair of carefree sticklebacks; Chorus of Ickle Fish
SONGS - ten songs explore a variety of musical styles, including Rock'n Roll, Ballad, Old English, Country & Western, Waltz, Lullaby and Blues. Please click on the arrows to hear the songs and see photographs of the Premiere, performed by Debbie Campbell's Jackson Lane Theatre Group at Central Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, to coincide with the WWF AGM, May 2008. CD Numbers refer to Vocal and Backing Tracks.
