Fog Everywhere

Fog Everywhere, is a played devised by the Level 3 Performing Arts Acting students who worked alongside the Lung Biology group to give an insight to the dangers of modern pollution, they also included a look back at the smog filled Victorian London era which is believed to be the root of our pollution problems.

The play also gives you an insight to how the world will be in the future due to pollution constantly being an increasing problem making the air worse which is showed by thick smoke drifting across the stage.

The show begins with 8 actors coming on stage starting to have a competition to see who can blow the balloon the biggest in a single breath, the actors who manage to blow the largest balloons are appraised and a hierarchy is then formed with them at the top of it. As an audience we then become aware of our own lungs and start to concentrate on our own breathing and consider how big we would be able to blow the balloon. On top of that it also makes us aware of how we normally take our breathing for granted.

The 65 minute play progresses swiftly scene by scene and does not discuss the causes of air pollution, but rather how this is more than a one-dimensional issue, talking about how people don't actively avoid being environmentally friendly for no reason and for this pollution has to be considered as a much wider social issue. Linking in to how the population is advised to take vehicles to make short trips rather than walking as the streets are not safe, this then demonstrates how people are contributing to pollution unintentionally.