He's got fat, denuded the landscape and then just leaves. One of Wan Smol Bag's productions includes Mr Kill The World , a rather unappealing man with an enormous cardboard chainsaw. The village children watching are encouraged to become trees and to help Peter, the Mighty Hawk, to save the forest. You can see the delight in their faces at being part of the drama. The ideas they are exploring will remain etched in their memories.
Theatre is a far more indelible tool in Melanesia than the written word.
Gods and Goddesses is a play which explored shared Indian and Fijian mythology and tries to build bridges between the different ethnic groups which make up the community. WAC recently started to use Playback Theatre in Suva prisons. Visiting the prisons on a weekly basis, the prisoners relate and share stories of their lives and experiences, which are then acted out by the group. The performances often inspire dialogue and help people look at their own situations from a new perspective. Just as in the past, where dance and music have been used to convey myths, legends, genealogies, moral tales and educate people on many aspects of culture, performances are being brought again in a contemporary setting to address contemporary issues.