The Many Lives of PET

Event information

The Show
Thank you for coming to The Many
Lives Of PET #1 we’re very glad you are
here with us. This show is about
humanity’s complicated relationship
with plastics. It is a dramatisation of a
report into future of these materials
written by The Birmingham Plastics
N e t w o r k ( a g r o u p o f o v e r 6 0
researchers at the University of
Birmingham). We learnt a lot making the
show and it has changed how some of
us think and behave. It is about 55
minutes long and there is no interval -
we hope you enjoy it.

Credits
Devised and performed by: Aizah Khan
Craig Stephens
Jack Trow
Direction by: Lori Hopkins and James Yarker
Text by: James Yarker with cast
Puppets: Ceridwen Brown
Stage Manager: Jessica Melia
Produced by: Dominic Thompson
Stan’s Cafe office: Beth Crossley & Michelle Smith
Photographs: Graeme Braidwood
Flier & Poster Design: Simon Ford
BSL: Dan Handscombe & Jennifer Scheider-Lau
Thanks to: Christopher Windows-Yule
Robyn MacPherson & everyone at the
Birmingham Plastics Network

Emergency Performance
The Many Lives Of PET #1 is the first
act of Emergency Performance, which
is how our company’s environmental
policy is brought to life. As usual we
tried our best to avoid buying new
things for the show and all the plastic
items have been pulled from the
rubbish and been repurposed.

Schools
In preparing for this show, members of the
Birmingham Plastics Network and Stan’s Cafe ran
workshops with hundreds of Year 10 students in eight
schools across the West Midlands. The show will be
performed in these schools in the afternoons before
public performances in the evening.
The Tour
If you value seeing theatre in this venue then please
do let us know. Positive feedback will help us raise
the money needed to make this kind of tour possible
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Context
Greenpeace is currently big campaign
about plastics and Friends of the Earth
are similarly engaged. We have
dramatised ‘The Sustainable Plastics
Policy Commission’ document so you
don’t have to read it, but it is very
readable and we encourage you to do
so. It can be downloaded via this QR
code.