Little BlueNovember 2000 Albert Hall NottinghamScore, backing track, practice recording and full programme available from ‘Science on Stage’Little Blue was commissioned by the Millennium Fund and recounts the story of our little blue planet from its birth three and a half billion years in the past to its death about the same distance in the future It starts witha hot and toxic planet whose volcanic fires finally cool down enough for therain to fall and fill the sea as the sun comes out for the very first time in the planet’s history. We then mix the four ingredients of life with the result that for three billion years plant life exists on a peaceful planet, gradually changing the conditions until they are ripe for the emergence of animal life, which seriously spoils the neighbourhood. Evolution goes its merry way producing the ultimate race of animals, the dinosaurs who rule, seemingly for ever until a mighty asteroid throws a spanner in the works. After this we see the emergence of man , the development of the first ever city (Jericho) and the growth of religion. A two song study of Ireland illustrates the way that belief in God can be harnesses to the Devil’s wagon. Some time is spent on the prospects for the future which stretches as far forward as our history reaches back. The tale of the final inhabitant of our planet brings the show almost to a close. The picture shows some rather glitter laden dancers moving to a gaelic theme in ‘frost and fire’ which interprets the nuclear winter following the asteroid impact. |
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