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Old Growth is a unique, bold and charming play about vision, madness, and real environmental responsibility in a time of greenwashing and limitless economic growth.
Taking place on the Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, the show blends fact and fiction, magic, music and storytelling...
The facts: in January 1997, a disgruntled logger named Grant Hadwin
– possibly crazy, possibly visionary – made the strongest
protest he could against clear-cutting, by destroying the one tree the
logging companies protected: the remarkable Golden Spruce.
The fiction:
in October 1997, two troubled young musicians named Alex and Aura travel to the site of the fallen Golden Spruce to
perform a musical ritual that they have created. As they tell
their story to the tree, we discover that Alex has had a kind of
shamanic calling – to become the eco-prophet that Grant Hadwin
failed to be.
Their story alternates with two other “branches”: the story of Hadwin’s collision with a tree that the Haida people (the first inhabitants of the islands) believed was a human being; and their trial performance of the “Envirologues” – short magical/musical monologues through which Alex plans to bring his big-picture environmental message to Canadians. But he has chosen a thorny path...how far will Aura follow?
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