PAVILION Dance South West comes to Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 26th October and Pound Arts at Corsham on Friday 27th with Plastic Paradiso, Claire Benson’s environmental inspired performance which aims to engage children and families in the importance of saving the oceans and the value of recycling.

There was once a wide, windswept place, near nowhere and close to forgotten, that was filled with things that nobody wanted … Based on The Tin Forest, a story by Helen Ward, Plastic Paradiso uses dance and puppetry to tell a story about friendship and the natural world.

It is set on an imagined, barren island where the lone inhabitant spends their time collecting the plastic which is forever washing up on the shore. Unexpectedly, this lonely person makes friends with a bird who appears there after a storm.

Demonstrating the power of friendship and the value of resilience, the bird returns with a seed which rewilds the plastic island. It is a gentle show, using non-verbal communication and ‘old school’ theatrical magic. It is most suitable for children aged four to 11yrs and their grown-ups.