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Lindsay: Welcome to this week's Spread the Love! This week we are in Subdury, Ontario,
Canada where Craig and I are working on a side project, a play of mine called The Flying
Bandit. Wait until you see Craig's moustache! And because we're in Sudbury, we knew we had
to do a Spread the Love for Moonscape to Treescape by Craig Mason because the play is about Sudbury.
Sudbury is a mining town and this environmental tale is about a place that destroys its natural
resources and then goes through a re-greening process.
Craig, what do you love about Moonscape to Treescape?
Craig: Well, I grew up not too far from here and I remember, even as a kid, coming to Sudbury
and the whole town was just enveloped by barren black rock like this sweet stuff you see behind
me. It was so bad in fact that NASA used the barren rock to test lunar vehicles.
Now, I remember one day reading a story about a re-greening project that was happening in
Sudbury and the whole community was involved, even a group of school kids, and I found that
very inspirational that we're all a part in preserving our ecosystem, even school kids,
and that's why I wrote the play. Lindsay, what do you love about Moonscape
to Treescape? Lindsay: Well, we have a long, long history
with this play. Before Theatrefolk was a publishing house, we toured plays and this was one of
the ones we toured all around northern Ontario. It's one of the few plays we have in our catalogue
which is really great for an elementary school audience and that's one of the assets of this
play. It has really great audience participation. The audience is an active participant in the
logging, the mining, the destruction of the natural resources, and then, again, they play
an active participant in the rebuilding of the environment, the re-greening process,
and I think that's really great to involve the audience in that and it makes for really
great theatre. That's it for Spread the Love!