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Visual Story: Your Visit to Curve…………………………………………………………………6

If you would like a break from the performance, you can visit our quiet space on the Mezzanine just outside the Rehearsal Room 2 or take a seat downstairs in our Foyer.

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When the show has finished, the cast will come back onto the stage and bow. The audience will clap to show the cast they enjoyed the performance. You can also clap if you would like to!

At the end of the show, the lights will get brighter. You can leave Rehearsal Room 2 when you’re ready.

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Spoiler Alert! Over the next few pages is a summary of the story of Errol’s Garden. You might find this helpful to read before you come to the theatre, but if you would like the story to be a surprise, skip to page 17.

Errol’s Garden begins with Errol scooting onto stage, followed by Tia. They welcome the audience into their block of flats, showing them around their apartment, while singing a lively song (♫ Come On In). Here, we are introduced to Errol’s many, many plants, some even kept in teapots and saucepans. Tia, his younger sister, really wants a pet. We hear from Errol and Tia’s Dad through a walkie talkie. He says that Errol must move all his plants as they are taking up too much room in their flat. Errol wonders what he might do with all of these plants (♫ Just Imagine). Errol and Tia meet their neighbour, Mr Higgles, who encourages them to look somewhere they have never looked before. They then discover that their building has a seventh floor they never knew existed! Errol and Tia enter the lift and find that the seventh floor is a rooftop, with an amazing view! Errol realises this would be the perfect space to put his plants, except it’s really dirty and full of rubbish. Some funky music plays (♫ Upcycling) and Errol realises that much of the rubbish can be turned into plant holders. Errol and Tia clean up the rooftop together. They are interrupted by Mrs Higgles, the head of the tenants’ association. She says that if they are to turn the rooftop into a garden, it must be shared by everyone. Errol then realises the garden can be for everyone - it can be a community garden! The only thing they must do is ask all the neighbours to help. In ♫ Build Our Garden, Errol and Tia rally their neighbours Joe, Missy and Mr Higgles to help them. However, they realise that there is one neighbour they have forgotten about Mary Sanusi, or Scary Mary as she is known. Scary Mary only comes out of her

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