Showcasing Arts Groupie’s next piece of theatre TREE, come along to a live rehearsal which is going to be developed for ArtsGroupies’s Summer 2022/23 programme. TREE warns about the throwaway society we live in and promotes sustainability through the narrative of a fairy story.
They are also working with the University of Liverpool on a project around local communities and their relationship to their local environments and climate change, developing and delivering ‘Weather Walkshops.’
This piece is in the very early stages of development and ArtsGroupie regulars, Samantha Alton, Ellis Murphy and John Maguire will deliver a reading of the piece under the direction of Artistic director Margaret Connell.
An informal question and answer session will follow with the audience offering advice, suggestions and to generally start a conversation about our relationship with the environment and the role that storytelling has in helping to raise awareness.
Away from the many, many dog walker tracks in Childwall valley woods, there is a wasteland of woodland bramble. During the summer months this part of the wood is unreachable, layered in a thick carpet of blackberry bushes, nettles and thorns.
The rest of the forest is always quite busy, people taking their dogs for a daily walk or teenage wildlife hanging around sneakily smoking or drinking cheap cider, thinking they’re the first people to ever do such a thing.
The wood needs to be enjoyed because like most of the cities green space it is richly sought after for property development. Green lungs slowly being choked by concrete and asphalt.
In this normally unreachable part of the woodland there lived a dainty little Fir Tree. This tree was far from content….
