ECO POWER GENERATED THEATRE
Get this latest show from the Theatre Royal, starting next week. The Home Of The Wriggler is a lo-fi sci-fi docu-drama, set in a world where oil has run out, but the cast generate all the power the show requires live on stage using a range of ageing technologies. Real eco-power based theatre. This innovative show will be at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth from Tuesday 20 April until Saturday 24 April 2010.
The story goes something like this…
It is 3006, and underground, sheltered from the raging weather, an investigation into pollution and global warming is gridlocked, the prosecution and defence teams lost focus and power generations go. Procedure has gone way out of the window and the irregular has become highly regular. Today the enquiry will continue to learn the legends of a place called The West Midlands, the people who lived there and the mythical things they once made called cars.
The aim of the show is to be a thoughtful, poetic and playful show, mixing research and speculation to trace the tangled threads of the thousand stories that, for good or ill, bind us to our motor industry.
Theatre company, Stan’s Cafe started making The Home of the Wriggler in 2005. Whilst still in the planning stage, the Longbridge car plant closed and the show took on a different, more reflective tone. Despite this the show is a celebration of all the people whose lives were, and still are, enmeshed in the Midlands’ motor industry.
Based on interviews with former Rover employees, it concentrates on how the plant was woven into the community, contrasting the detail on individual’s lives with the big sweep of history and economic ‘progress’. It is clever, funny, engaging, and doesn’t tell its audiences what to think or believe.
For more information or to book tickets please contact the Theatre Royal Box Office on (01752) 267222 or online at www.theatreroyal.com
