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 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 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 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

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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 Jacks Fred 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 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, Raffle, Door, Stall: Sweet HerrickCasPeggytheChahalMembers & & of Dorothy Prompt: & Lighting Technical: Scenery & Props: && TonySamworth CarolineStella 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 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 van Ben 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. Samworth Caroline Hartland Joe Joe White speak and ran around on all fours barking, Experts agree that unless a child learns to speak by the age of mimicking her carers. Though she must have seen five, the brain misses its window of opportunity to acquire humans at a distance, and seems occasionally to language, a defining characteristic of being human. have entered the family house like a stray, they Oxana was able to learn to talk again because she had some childish speech before she was abandoned. At an orphanage were no longer her species: all meaningful life was school, they taught her to walk upright, to eat with her hands Col. Moustarde: Col. Moustarde: Bennett:Corp. Rowley,ElyshaEdwards, Molly Todd, Evie &Pillin. Alice Sweet,Martha Dance Chorus: & Hetherington,Murray,Kate Daisy Alysha Dame Doshtojetski: Dame Doshtojetski: Jane: Jedward: Katie Price: Announcer:BBC contained in a kennel. and, crucially, to communicate like a human being. Judging from the complete lack of written The definition of a feral child (or "wild child") is one who, from documentation about her physical and a very young age, has lived in isolation from human contact, unaware of human social behaviour and unexposed to language. Hickling Local History Group CNN.com Bye, Child The Tarzan Story! August 2008. Seamus Heaney's poem is inspired by the story of http://www.tarzan.org - the official website for Edgar Rice A dog sheltered a newborn baby Kevin Halfpenny & is from Wintering Out London: abandoned by its 14-year-old mother in a Burroughs and packed with all the information you could Faber & Faber, 1972. field in rural Argentina until the boy was possibly wish for! When the lamp glowed rescued, a doctor said Friday. a yolk of light A resident of a rural area outside Plata

In their back window, called police late Wednesday night to say

Pulp Fiction: The child in the henhouse that he had heard the baby crying in a field During the first half of the twentieth century the American reading public put his eye to the chink. behind his house. had access to a source of entertainment now long gone: "pulp" maga- Little henhouse boy, The man went outside and found the infant zines. These magazines were printed on cheap paper with a high pulp Sharp faced as new moons lying beside the dog and its six newborn content (hence the name), wrapped in garishly illustrated covers, and Remembered your photo still puppies, said Daniel Salcedo, chief of police were brimming with every type of fiction imaginable: westerns, romances, Glimpsed like a rodent of the Province of Buenos Aires. science fiction, tales of courtly intrigue, stories of historical adventure, the On the floor of my mind. The temperature was a chilly 37 degrees, exploits of hardy explorers in foreign climes. Every issue brought you a Little moon man, Salcedo said. Kennelled and faithful The dog had apparently carried the baby 50 Date found: 1956; Age when found: 7 7 found: when Age 1956; found: Date http://www.feralchildren.com handful of short stories and the latest installment of two or three different Halfpenny; Kevin of Ireland boy Hen the House serials, so you had to buy the next issue (and the next) to find out how the At the foot of the yard, meters from where his mother had tales ended. And then another serial would begin … Your frail shape luminous abandoned him to where the puppies were If you happened to be walking by a news stand in 1912 you might have Weightless, is stirring the dust, huddled, police said. stopped to look at the October issue of the All-Story magazine. Perhaps The cobwebs, old droppings "She took it like a puppy and rescued it," the cover caught your eye: a barbarously clad man sits astride a rampag- under the roosts Salcedo said. "The doctors told us if she ing lion, his knife raised for the kill, as another man (probably the lion's And dry smells from scraps hadn't done this, he would have died. intended dinner) looks on in horror. The title was as exotic as the illustra- She put through your trapdoor, tion: " ~ A Romance of the Jungle." Fifteen cents morning and evening. Assoc Press June 21, 2005 After these footsteps, silence, would have gotten you a copy. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Vigils, solitudes, fasts, The author bore the rather weighty name of Edgar Rice Burroughs. And A 12-year-old girl who was abducted Unchristened tears, glancing at the magazine's contents page you might have realized this and beaten by men trying to force her A puzzled love of the light, into a marriage was found being story was special, because instead of serializing this lengthy novel the All- But now you speak at last. Story's editor had decided to run it complete in this single issue. "If you With a remote mime guarded by three lions who apparently will stop and realize how many thousands and thousands of stories an of something beyond patience, had chased off her captors, a editor has to read, day in, day out, you will be impressed when we tell you Your gaping wordless proof policeman said. that we read this yarn at one sitting and had the time of our young lives." of Lunar distances From The Times, January 19, 2007 So wrote Thomas Metcalf in the previous is- Travelled beyond love. sue's buildup to Tarzan. "It is the most exciting Half-human, half-animal: return of the story we have seen in a blue moon, and about girl who was lost in the wild for 18 years as original as they make 'em." The All-Story To the man who insists that he is her father, there is no doubt that the filthy, naked woman readers, and eventually the world, agreed. caught stealing rice from loggers in the jungle like a wild animal is the daughter he gave up as From this one novel sprang two dozen more, lost 18 years ago. The woman, found last Saturday in a remote area in Cambodia, has long, mat- over forty movies, hundreds of comic books, ted hair, grunts and screams instead of speaking and has a hunted expression and a fear of peo- radio shows, television programs, Tarzan toys, ple. But Ksor Lou said that he instantly recognised the daughter he had last seen when she was Tarzan gasoline, Tarzan underwear, Tarzan 8. The girl, Ro Cham H’pnhieng, had been herding buffalo in the jungle when she vanished in ice cream, Tarzan running shoes ~ the list is 1989. Mr Ksor always believed that she had been killed by wild animals. virtually endless. Edgar Rice Burroughs be- When rumours reached his village that a naked woman had been caught by loggers he decided to came one of the twentieth century's most have a look. To his astonishment he recognised her from a childhood scar on her arm from a knife cut. The reconciliation was a joyous one for the father, but apparently not for the daugh- popular authors, and Tarzan one of the world's ter, who refuses to wear clothes or eat with chopsticks, fights off anyone who approaches, will best-known literary characters. not wash and has tried to escape back to the jungle. Because she can apparently speak no language, it is impossible for her to explain who she is or how she has been living. Hickling Local History Group Akeley, a taxidermist at the American Museum of Natural History, killed five gorillas, but in his autobiography he describes the shame he immediately felt: " It took all of one's Tarzan Trivia! scientific ardour to keep from feeling like a murderer." Akeley then persuaded the king of • Tarzan has never been out of print, variations of the story remain popular Belgium to designate the area a protected region for the gorillas. However, their future was and new ones crop up all the time; from Disney’s cartoon version to the by no means secure; Fossey had to fight off poachers as well as plans to reduce the size of worldwide bestselling novel which made the Man Booker Prize shortlist the park. In 1985, she was brutally murdered. The crime has never been solved. In 1994, civil war broke out. A million people were slaughtered in a hundred days. As this terrible human last year—’Me Cheeta’. tragedy unfolded, many feared for the gorillas. Ian Redmond, Fossey's assistant and now the • ‘Me Cheeta’. is the autobiography of the director of Global Great Ape Conservation, says: "It was obvious that the area was being chimpanzee who played Cheeta to Johnny stripped of its forest. You can't blame the people; they needed to cook and keep warm. But Weismuller’s Tarzan. It is an outrageous in trying to survive, they were destroying the forest." Redmond visited Rwanda and managed critique on life with Tarzan and in Hollywood to track down some of the park's staff and reinstall them at their former posts. The which was seriously reviewed on publication as trackers and Redmond set out to find the remnants of the gorilla population. To his great a ghostwritten but genuine autobiography. It relief, he saw them: "There they were, just going about their business in the forest. It was wonderful." Recently, Redmond has shown new footage of the gorillas to Sir David. Pablo, the was only when the Booker nomination was youngster who crawled over Attenborough, is now a 200kg silverback and group leader. Their announced that the real author, James Lever numbers have climbed to 380 and, although still threatened by poachers, they have become the country's stepped forward. He was horrified that his third-biggest foreign exchange earner; 8,000 visitors a year pay up to $375 a day to watch them. So does rather salacious spoof was being taken Sir David think his visit to the Virunga gorillas was his most memorable moment? "It's meaningless to pick just one," he says. "There have been so many - filming birds of paradise, volcanoes erupting." The public seriously; however, his revelation only seems to may differ. On 15 April, we get a chance to vote on the matter in UKTV's My Favourite Attenborough have made the book more popular. It’s a fabulous read, full of revelations Moment. For the natural history presenter, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, it's the final scene in State of the such as the time Cheeta made off with ‘Jane’s’ clothes when she went Planet: " David's clip on Easter Island is one of the most poignant moments on television I've ever seen. skinny dipping and tales of ‘bottoms I have bitten’ … The Polynesians, by destroying their environment destroyed their own civilisation and their existence, and • that led David on to say that this should be a lesson to us; that we could do the same thing. It almost Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the brought tears to my eyes." Dickie Bird, who worked with Attenborough for 30 years, has his own African jungle by great apes, who later returns to civilization only to favourite. The naturalist, hoping to film the rare Wilson's bird of paradise in New Guinea, spotted a male largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. displaying to a female. "We got it," he said excitedly to Bird. "I know," replied the sound recordist. "I could tell. The radio mic was picking up your heartbeat and suddenly I heard it double its speed." (Wikipedia) • Jane Goodall cites Tarzan as her inspiration to work with the great apes— she was attracted to the ‘back to nature’ philosophy & primitivism Feral Children! believing that she would have made a better Jane than the original. Feral children are children who have grown up ‘wild’ (there’s • Olympic champion Peter John Weissmuller, who, after winning an a ‘Not the 9 O’Clock News’ quote in there somewhere …), unprecedented five gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928, that is without any human guidance. went on to become the best known and best loved of all the screen In literature & mythology, the innocence which this lack of experience of the human world brings with it, makes the . feral child a powerful metaphor to voice criticism of the • Before Weissmuller was well known, he and his brother Peter saved 11 evils of human civilisation; they carry with them a kind of lives when a Lake Michigan tour boat capsized in a sudden storm. As an closeness to nature, simplicity and moral superiority. Olympic swimmer, Weissmuller was already a hero to many even before Romulus & Remus (raised by wolves) are said to have founded Rome; Mowgli (also raised by his portrayal of Tarzan. wolves) is Rudyard Kipling’s hero & was based on true stories prevalent in India; Tarzan • Although not the first Tarzan in movies was raised by apes and was known for using his strength to defend the innocent; and lastly, (that was ), Weissmuller Peter Pan who ran away to Neverland and refused to grow up. was the first to be associated with the Kamala and Amala, the Wolf Girls of now traditional ululating, yodelling Midnapore These are all wonderful stories, but probably Tarzan yell - recordings of three If you look at no other case histories more intriguing are the true stories which vocalists were spliced together to get look at this one!! emerge in the papers periodically. These vary the effect—a soprano, an alto, and a ~~~~ from tales of children brought up by animals hog caller. This famous yell is still used A good place to start is: to children held captive or grossly neglected in films. http://www.feralchildren.com. and alone, who grow up completely isolated. Hickling Local History Group Mountain gorillas: the facts David Attenborough's ape encounter was one of TV's most memorable moments. (www. independent.co.uk/environment/gorilla-action-attenborough-looks-back-at-the-rwanda- ∗ There are fewer than 90,000 gorillas left in gorillas) "There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a the world. gorilla than any other animal I know." So whispered David Attenborough as he lay among ∗ Gorillas occur in two species, Western and crushed wild celery alongside a 100kg female gorilla in Rwanda in 1978. It is, perhaps, the Eastern. Mountain gorillas are a Western most memorable sequence in any natural history film. When it was broadcast in the landmark subspecies. They are highly endangered: only 700 series Life on Earth, 500 million people worldwide watched it. Attenborough concluded: "It are left, 380 of them in the Virunga volcanoes seems really very unfair that man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolise everything that where Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic is aggressive and violent, when that is one thing that the gorilla is not - and that we are." At Republic of Congo meet. Western lowland gorillas that moment a huge male, the ruler of the group, raced past and thumped the female are found in the tropical forests of western vigorously in the back. Attenborough had Africa, from southern Nigeria to the Congo river. ∗ suggested that his 1979 series should Mountain gorillas have longer hair, larger jaws feature a sequence to illustrate the and teeth, a smaller nose and shorter arms than opposable thumb, which we share with apes other gorillas. and which gives us manual dexterity. He ∗ A gorilla can live for 50 years. They are folivorous; they mainly eat vegetation. felt that chimpanzees could be used. The ∗ Gorillas spend about 30 per cent of the day feeding, 30 per cent travelling and 40 per producer, John Sparks, thought this was cent resting. boring; they ought to film gorillas. "It was ∗ In 1861, Paul du Chaillu was the first white explorer to see a Western gorilla. In an exciting alteration, but I didn't think it Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, he wrote: "His eyes began to flash was possible," Sir David says. There are fierce a fire as we stood motionless on the defensive, and the crest of short hair on his 700 mountain gorillas in the wild today. At forehead began to twitch rapidly up and down while his powerful fangs were shown as he that time, about 300 were living on the again sent forth a thunderous roar. And now truly he reminded me of nothing but some slopes of the Virunga volcanoes in Rwanda; filming would require carrying equipment for hellish dream creature - a being of that hideous order, half man, half beast. Just as he three hours up a 45-degree slope to an altitude of 3,000 metres. Not only that, but Dian began another of his roars, beating his breast in rage, we fired and killed him." (www. Fossey, a fierce American later featured in the film Gorillas in the Mist, was studying this independent.co.uk/environment) group and Attenborough very much doubted that she would allow them access. To his surprise, she did, though when the crew finally arrived, they found her ill and devastated by Jambo, who weighed in at nearly 200 kilos, the death of her favourite gorilla, Digit, hacked to death by poachers for his head and became an international celebrity when a little hands, which were sold as souvenirs. Fossey gave the crew strict instructions about how to boy fell in to the gorilla compound at Jersey approach "her gorillas" - no standing up, no eye contact, and they had to grunt at them. The Zoo. The horror of the spectators turned to amazement as Jambo approached cameraman Martin Saunders, who was with his sound recordist, Dickie Bird, describes the the unconscious boy, Levan Merritt, gently touched him and then protected him experience: "When Dickie and me saw them, I mean, we started grunting, boy. We were from the rest of the gorilla family until help arrived. Unique film of the event was grunting and we'd no intention of standing up, that's for sure." The gorillas very quickly accepted the crew; one was puzzled about his reflection in the camera lens and peered shown around the world and Jambo destroyed the King Kong image of the gorilla closely at it, before feeling the back of Saunders' head to try to find the other gorilla. The as a fierce and aggressive animal. key moment in Life on Earth featured Attenborough with three-year-old Pablo, a male, Richard Johnstone-Scott; Jambo, a Gorilla’s Story. lounging on top of him. "It was bliss," says Sir David, although he was grimacing. He adds: "I www.durrell.org (dvd available) was only grimacing because out of shot, these baby gorillas started taking off my shoes, and well, you can't talk about the opposable thumb and the importance in primate evolution of the Ya Kwanza is the silverback who replaced Jambo at grip if somebody's taking off your shoes, particularly if that somebody is two baby gorillas." Gerald Durrell’s Jersey Zoo. Gorillas consider direct eye However, there are only a few seconds of what was Attenborough's most moving encounter contact/staring as an insult. If you’re unlucky Ya Kwanza will with the gorillas, for there was hardly any film in the camera and Sparks was waiting for him show his displeasure with a deadly accurate shot with dung … to say something about the opposable thumb. He only shot those precious seconds because Objects which find their way in to the enclosure instantly Saunders said it would give the guys editing the film something to laugh about. As the crew become Ya Kwanza’s property until a keeper attempts to set off back down the mountain they were shot at, and later arrested, by the army, charged reclaim them, then follows the bartering treats at varying with filming Digit's body in order to make trouble. Attenborough was strip-searched. Sparks levels for each item depending on its value - far more for a was told the crew would be released if he paid $2,000, which Attenborough persuaded him camera than sunglasses! Once a deal is struck, he takes his to do. Their film was confiscated, but Saunders and Bird had the foresight to swap the treat and personally, returns the booty with an accurate labels on the cans, and the soldiers took away only unexposed film. The fact that the gorillas throw and always to the right owner. were there to be filmed at all was largely thanks to Dian Fossey's tireless commitment, and

the fact that the area had been made Africa's first national park back in 1925. In 1921, Carl Hickling Local History Group