Tarzan Programme
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On your seats you will have found our Goody Bags. There are all kinds of goodies inside - some to take home and some to get out during the performance!!! THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU NEED Cheeta enjoys one of our special jelly snakes … TO KNOW ABOUT!! Somebody wants to be a giraffe but is just too small … Find your own animal mask in your goody bag and sing along to ‘Mighty Jungle’ to banish the wannabee blues! Join in with a little ‘Banana Split’ fun when Jedward ask for your jungle jokes - write your favourite jungle joke on the banana in your goody bag & give it to Jedward or hand it in at the end to win a prize! Just watch out for the cream … Reward Tarzy with his favourite monkey nuts when he finally learns to speak like Jane! Hickling Local History Group www.wwf.org. uk/what_we_do/ It’s PANTO time again, and this year we are taking Hickling safeguard- back (80 years) and south (thousands of miles) into the deep, ing_the_natural _world/ dark jungle of 1930s Africa. As you can imagine, and in true www.macmillan.org.uk panto tradition, we haven’t left it there; we’ve done our best to bring in a little contemporary jungle action where ‘I’m a Celebrity’ meets ‘X Factor’; where 1930s pith helmets (& standards of Hi, I’ve been selected to represent Nottinghamshire Girl Guides at the next World Scout caddishness) meet a Russian Oligarchess; and where Cadburys Jamboree in Sweden. This is a wonderful opportunity to meat people from all over the world. To pursue this experience I need to raise £2000. I’m hoping to raise this in a number chocolate (with Kong on the drums!), hissing snakes and grunting of ways including singing here tonight; a musical concert in gorillas mix a concoction for your delectation. There’s Botox, Hickling church on the 22 nd of May; Baby Sitting services and ‘closure’, cocktails, talking parrots, dancing monkeys and much, anything else possible. To contact me about anything to do with upcoming events, suggestions, donation, information etc. Please much more! call 07766620358 or email [email protected] Thanks so much! Amy Frost x Poor old Tarzan is finding that growing up is not as easy as he imagined it would be - he doesn’t seem to look like the other gorillas, he can’t understand his hairless state or his fear of the We Are Very Grateful To: jungle or work out why everyone else seems to know what’s going Samworth Brothers on, except him. When the beautiful Jane swings in to his life, he Clawson Dairies finally finds the strength to stand up to his father (Kong), his Mark Fraser, St. James’s Place Wealth Management mother (much scarier than a gorilla!), the ‘beautiful’ Dame Lotta Les Rutherford & Budgens of Keyworth Doshtojetski and to fight the evil snake who terrorises the jungle For their sponsorship and support THANK YOU! and won’t share the chocolate … This may be a version of Tarzan that Edgar Rice Burroughs would struggle to recognise … A very big thank you from all the cast and crew to everyone who has supported Rehearsal Highlight: The January snow this year’s pantomime! failed to disrupt rehearsals with cast & crew ~~~ arriving in whatever way they could - Tarzan on a Thank you to all our families and other halves, to those who have helped with huge tractor was definitely the most unusual, the Village Hall, refreshments and raffle and in any other way! And thank you though ... to all of you who have bought tickets and come along to the performances! We Hope You Have Enjoyed Yourselves As Much As We Have! Hickling Local History Group psychological state when found, the authorities were Cry of an Enfant Sauvage not keen to record her case - neglect on this scale was Elizabeth Grice too shameful to acknowledge - even though it has been of huge and continuing interest to psychologists who Telegraph.com: 17 Jul 2006 believe feral children can help resolve the nature- t. For five years, Oxana Malaya lived with nurture debate. dogs and survived on raw meat and What is known about "the Dog Girl" has been passed down aurally, through doctors and carers. "She was like scraps. When she was found she was a small animal. She walked on all fours. She ate like a Pauline Chell, Chell, Pauline running around on all fours barking. dog," is about as scientific as it gets. Elizabeth Grice hears her incredible Last month, the British child psychologist and expert story on feral children, Lyn Fry, went to the Ukraine with a She bounds along on all fours through long grass, Channel 4 film crew to meet Oxana, who now lives in a panting towards water with her tongue hanging home for the mentally disabled. out. When she reaches the tap she paws at the Five years after a Discovery Channel programme about JacksFred ground with her forefeet, drinks noisily with her her, they wanted to see if she had integrated into jaws wide and lets the water cascade over her community living. Fry was keen to find out how far the Thomas Alan Walker Tony head. girl was still damaged - and to witness a reunion with ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ Up to this point, you think the girl could be her father. acting - but the moment she shakes her head and "I expected someone much less human," says Fry, the Parker Sara neck free of droplets, exactly like a dog when it first non-Ukrainian expert to meet Oxana. "I'd heard &Thomas, Alex Alan emerges from a swim, you get a creepy sense that stories that she could fly off the handle, that she was Philippa Jacks Philippa OliviaFraserKatieThompson & ~~~~~~~~~ this is something beyond imitation. Then, she very unco-operative, that she was socially inept, but Thomas & Alan Alex barks. The furious sound she makes is not like a she did everything I asked of her. "Her language is Castthe of Members Sarah Hartland, Bob & Mary-Anne Naismith Hartland,Mary-AnneBob Naismith & Sarah Thomas Alex human being pretending to be a dog. It is a odd. She speaks flatly as though it's an order. There is Fraser Jane Vear Liz proper, chilling, canine burst of aggression and it no cadence or rhythm or music to her speech, no is coming from the mouth of a young woman, inflection or tone. But she has a sense of humour. She dressed in T-shirt and shorts. likes to be the centre of attention, to make people Ticket Sales: Refreshments, Door, Raffle, Sweet Stall: HerrickCasChahalPeggytheMembers & & of Dorothy Prompt: & Lighting Technical: Scenery & Props: && TonySamworth StellaCaroline Wardt, Walker, cast. of the members Producer: Director: This is 23-year-old Oxana Malaya reverting to laugh. Showing off is quite a surprising skill when you Hartland Sarah Set design: Props design: Curtains: - Sound music & effects: Choreography: Make-up: by:Script written DerkJaniceFraser,and der Mike Thompson, van Jane behaviour she learnt as a young child when she consider her background. was brought up by a pack of dogs on a rundown "She made a very striking impression on me. When I farm in the village of Novaya Blagoveschenka, in made her a gift of some wooden toy animals we had the Ukraine. When she showed her boyfriend used in tests, she thanked me. Superficially, you would what she once was and what she could still do - never know this was a young woman raised by dogs." Maya Middleton the barking, the whining, the four-footed In the film, Oxana looks unco-ordinated and tomboyish. running - he took fright. It was a party trick too When she walks, you notice her strange stomping gait far and the relationship ended. and swinging shoulders, the intermittent squint and Oxana is a feral child, one of only about 100 misshapen teeth. known in the world. The story goes that, when she Like a dog with a bone, her first instinct is to hide anything she was three, her indifferent, alcoholic parents left is given. She is only 5ft tall but when she fools about with her her outside one night and she crawled into a hovel friends, pushing and shoving, there is a palpable air of menace and brute strength. Stella Walker Stella Jacks Philippa Hetherington Cathy Thompson Olivia Tony Walker Tony Thompson Mike where they kept dogs. No one came to look for The oddest thing is how little attention she pays to her pet her or even seemed to notice she was gone, so she mongrel. "Sometimes, she pushed it away," says Fry. "She was The Cast & Crew: Cast The & Crew: Derk van der der Wardt van Derk stayed where there was warmth and food - raw much more orientated to people." meat and scraps - forgetting what it was to be After a series of cognitive tests, Fry concluded that Oxana has human, losing what toddler's language she had and the mental capacity of a six-year-old and a dangerously low boredom threshold. She can count but not add up. She cannot learning to survive as a member of the pack. Thompson Janice Baker Andy der Wardt Ben van WalkerStella Buddy: Buddy: Serpentina: Parrot: Mrs Kong: Mrs Kong: read or spell her name correctly. She has learning difficulties, Tarzan: Kong: A shameful five years later, a neighbour reported but she is not autistic, as children brought up by animals are a child living with animals. When she was found, at sometimes assumed to be. She is proud of her huge wristwatch the age of eight in 1991, Oxana could hardly with its many ringtones - but can't tell the time.