Our allotment, our art

Although we have always put our affection into our performances, videos and plays, perhaps the opening of each season of the «Nights on the allotment» was when we most let loose our passionate convictions about the natural world and our gardening knowledge. From year one, when we simply had an actress colleague and some younger gardeners (our children) make an announcement, we have had many different spectacles, increasingly more sophisticated and ambitious, in the best sense of the word.

We have done «The Allotment Goddesses», a tribute to the Mother-Goddesses of the world who are identified with Mother Earth; «The four elements», tales of the lives of women from such far-away places as India, Kenya and Mexico, and the countries visited by the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers; tales linked to feminist ecology and to the land which reflects our most ancient oral tradition. «The fruit and veg crazy cabaret», a real eccentricity and really good fun, in which people who had never dreamed of such a situation took part. Liberating, definitely. During the pandemic things were more low-key, but we must still give deserved thanks to our «Golden Girls». We bounced back as «The A-team», a video tribute, and this year we have reached our usual dizzy heights with: «The Romance of the Wolf-tomato», an allotment musical, written, acted and sung by our talented cast, forged among vegetables. We can, of course, promise –indeed, do promise- that the best is still to come.