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Wild Life
| by | Pamela Carter |
| director | Nicholas Bone |
| designers | Sans facon |
In January 1800, a strange creature was trapped by hunters in the woods near Aveyron in southern France. On closer examination, the creature turned out to be a boy, about 12 years old and naked apart from the tattered remains of a shirt. His body was covered in scars, with one large and particularly vicious looking one on his neck which seemed to indicate an attempt to cut his throat. The boy was in a shocking condition and seemed to be both deaf and mute. At first the authorities were perplexed about what to do with him, but then people began to wonder if this was an opportunity to discover more about ourselves. If this boy had grown up wild, might it be possible to study him and discover whether it is nature or nurture that makes us human?
Wild Life is a new play by Pamela Carter - one of the UK's most exciting playwrights (Slope, An Argument About Sex) - and reunites the director-designer team behind Magnetic North's acclaimed Walden. It will be produced in Winter 2010/11 in a co-production with Cumbernauld Theatre.
