RAFTT (Radical Art For These Times)
This play is free to be used by Fracktavists everywhere! You can show our video, produce your own version, alter the script, or whatever you like.
A PDF of the script is available here:
http://www.artforthesetimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WhattheFrackscript.pdf
Here’s a link to the soundtrack:
https://soundcloud.com/raftt-1/what-the-frack-soundtrack
“What the Frack?!” is an original script based on The Bremen Town Musicians, a classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In the old story, farm animals fleeing abuse and slaughter meet on the road and journey together in search of a new life playing music together. They come upon a house full of robbers, scare them off with their animal characteristics, which in the dark seem monstrous to the robbers, and then live happily together in the house, creating what we could imagine to be a sort of music and art collective. (You may have seen the iconic image of the animals standing on each other’s backs, one on top of the other in a tower, and looking in at the robber’s window.)
We have adapted the story to include both wild and domesticated animals (frog, fox, goat and elk) fleeing a contaminated fracking site. They come upon Robbers (energy industry execs, “unregulators”, bankers and lawyers) feasting in an opulent bank lobby. By listening at the window, the animals learn the reason that their homes have been poisoned and bulldozed. In grief, they cry out, and all of nature cries out too, lamenting with words and music the destruction of our planet in the name of greed.
As in the original tale, our “Robbers” return to the scene, but in our adaptation a dialogue begins and a clean up effort is launched.
However, it’s important to realize that fracking permanently contaminates water sources and the only way to mitigate the effects of fracking is not to frack at all. Regulations are just a scam, ban fracking.
Read an article about our production and see photos on the RAFTT blog.
If you produce a version, we’d love to get a report-back! Write to: artforthesetimes@gmail.com
