SEED
SEED – an ambitious poetic, anarchic & inspiring hitch-hike on the journey from small Acorns to great Oak Trees presented by Pif-Paf . A highly tourable and technically independent solo show. SEED runs on its own batteries and has its own PA.
A beautifully fantastical exploration of our relationship with the long suffering plants that keep us fed, sheltered and breathing, staring down the barrel of climate change, seed gene patenting, monocultures and species after species of tree falling beneath this onslaught and of course Slugs, lots and lots of Slugs.
It is the story of Wilford and his mate Napoleon The Chicken – as they scrape and dig and blast and rain their way to plant the very last acorn. It’s a story of pulsating plant beats, pneumatic theatrical explosions, flying soil and water, resource liberation, live music, a giant tree growing out of a shed and Slugs, lots of them.
Th story spills out of Wilford and Napoleon’s mobile home, a shed, cobbled toegtehr from their life before they were on the run from the Slugs. Into this shed Pif-Paf condense the ground breaking theatrical wizardry we have been developing for high profile collaborators and turn it to our story as the tools as Wilford’s trade.
The happy truth we are sharing in 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.
Performer & co-creator – Pete Gunson
Directer & co-creator – Eleanor Hooper
Music & co-creator — Jack Stoddart (Ramshacklicious)
Movement direction – Fran Widdowson
Design & make – Pete Gunson, Eleanor Hooper, Annie Nelson, Stuart Gunson, Johnny Eastleigh & Chris Woodward
Film – Jake Barrett Films
For all SEED’s up and coming shows please see our dates page.
To book, or for further information, please get in touch.