Three characters are found rummaging through rubbish bins on the street. It transpires that the rubbish is in fact representative of each of the individuals' fractured hopes and dreams - ‘jig-saw pieces’ of their life-story.  Each life-story unfolds before us with tangible humour and sadness, hope and hopelessness, hurt, joyfulness and tender beauty, expressed through an exciting and compelling fusion of physical-theatre, contemporary dance, monologue, poetry, mime and rich symbolism.  

Recycle: Disposable Lives explores the questions of isolation, value and human fragility and belief through the tragi-beauty life stories of various different characters: an elderly, ex-military man sits slumped on a park bench, mumbling to himself, unable to reconcile his past respected position with his current reality; a faded beauty and former academic scholar, scrabbles amongst street rubbish, searching for anything that perhaps might help her to shake off the haunting memory of her own aching loss.

A young girl who appears to have barely shaken off her teenage years, retreats into the street shadows; a suspected runaway, she looks out-of-place on the street.  Her exact story is unclear, her rampant vulnerability is not!  “It isn’t safe here anymore…” she whispers from inside her own World, but where else can she go? Will these lives continue to be side-lined and considered disposable by society - or can they be recycled and restored to value and meaning?   

This 75-minute physical theatre piece comprises of multimedia, installation, dance, poetry, monologue, movement and both live and recorded vocal which is all evocatively harmonised by specifically crafted integral soundscaping and lighting design.