Lunchtimes at Tain Royal Academy are full of drama – and the drama is full of rubbish. Pupils in the lunchtime drama group, run by teacher and writer Peter Whitely, are tackling the subjects of waste and consumption in a play titled “Pieces of String too Short to be Useful”.
The aim of the piece is to get secondary school audiences thinking about the connections between the things they consume, the waste they produce and the effect this has on landfill and on climate change.
In a series of short sketches, pupils look at typical consumer items – a mobile phone, a Tshirt, hair products – and examine why we always want more, better, newer replacements.
Peter Whitely explained “How many of our choices are truly individual, and how much are we all influenced by fashion and advertising? Under the guise of “decluttering” we can end up throwing out items which are perfectly all right, filling up landfill sites and adding to our carbon footprint in the process.” Read more
