1. The Big Room

As we enter the room is serene. If you listen carefully there are the sounds of water gurgling below.

The audience stand around the walls, and children start to tell us about the rivers of Wimborne. They illustrate the information by chalking on the floor, then they start to use clay, to make river banks. By the end of this section we know things we didn’t know before – about the history and details of the river.

The children go (?), the sounds of water are slightly more evident. Film is projected on the far wall. It shows the river in full flow. We hear the voice of someone talking about learning to swim.

A creature descends from above – a thing of dryness, it stalks the river, looking for water. Then a second creature emerges from below, slithery. The sound is very loud now. The snake creature climbs and reaches. It releases something.

Water starts to trickle along the little clay river banks, it starts at one end of the room and slowly wending along. The dry creature dips its head in the water and flicks droplets from it's hair. A door opens and we hear singing – it calls us.