Seed is a highly visual and technically ambitious poetic, anarchic, & inspiring hitch-hike on the journey from small Acorns to great Oak Trees.
Join Wilford planning trees where he shouldn’t – living in his shed, and on the run from his past and his arch-enemies – SLUGS – out to get him for his contraband seeds!
The street theatre show is a thoroughly researched and beautifully fantastical exploration of our relationship with the long suffering plants that keep us fed, sheltered, and breathing. It is staring down the barrel of climate change, seed gene patenting, monocultures and species after species of tree falling beneath this onslaught.
It is the visual and movement street theatre story of Wilford – one of the unseen – as he scrapes and digs and blasts the seed holes and co-opts the water and food to feed his charges. It’s a story of pulsating plant beats, pneumatic theatrical explosions, flying soil and water, resource liberation, live music, and a giant tree growing out of a shed.
The set up of the show is the recently arrived pottering shed – on wheels – to suit a renegade seed smuggler. It looks and smells like it’s been dragged backwards through Burning Man and kept on doing its job.
The happy truth we are sharing in all of this is that we can all act and the willing audience will leave us with the where-with-all to start their own forests, one seed at a time. We just needed someone to believe in.
