Animal Vegetable Mineral

Synopsis

< Queen Ping

“Like an elaborate art installation, the play introduced a gamut of random characters and vivid visual images… Each such dream-like sequence came complete with beautifully costumed characters that made no real sense but became immediately riveting…” The Straits Times Life!

“I’ve often wondered with plays like these whether your ticket should not get you into two or more performances, because a single performance is never enough to appreciate the richness of the offering.” The Flying Inkpot Theatre Review

Once, a man and a woman laid their baby down to sleep

Then they walked quietly away.

A few steps…stop. A few more…drop.

The baby lay there sleeping.

When the baby awoke, he was sixty years old.

His hair was white

His eyes had turned yellow

And when he opened his mouth, a gecko crawled out…

Animal Vegetable Mineral is a theatrical performance about a man who turns 30 and decides he must leave his mother, father, brothers, sisters, dog, snake, spiritual advisor, best friend, lover, maid and god… for a little while.

As a parting gift, he sings them a song.

This offbeat, comic-surreal play employs found text, movement, music, singing and sound to create a no-holds-barred theatrical experience. The actors transform into various characters, jump space and time, go through spiritual cleansing, climb mountains and walk across deserts …all for the sake of one little man in pursuit of his dreams.

A little man goes a long way.