Description: This is the story of Amelia Stronsky who has come up with an incredible invention to enter the Statewide Pollution Solution competition.  It is based on a story told to her by her grandmother.  

In the 1950s, there was be a harmless chemical added to the local swimming pool in case somebody piddled in the water.  If they did, a big purple plume would, very embarrassingly, surround them and indicate their miscreance.  

Amelia's thoughts and ideas began firing! She has reasoned that because we don’t actually see the greenhouse gases which are coming from our cars and other places we don’t realise their extent.  She argues that if we could see the “pollution” like the purple water in the swimming water, we might think twice about how much energy we use.

Amelia invents the Purple Bladderometer and will most certainly win the pollution solution competition … except for Brent Fartly who is extremely jealous and wants to win the mountain bike.  So he sets about sabotaging her work.  

But wait … here comes Corey Carburettor, a silent, mime clown petrol head, who actually develops a crush on Amelia, thwarts Brent, changes his energy hungry ways and ends up being there, holding hands with Amelia as her winning entry is announced.

This play has got it all.  Boy meets girl, subterfuge and lateral thinking ahead of its time.  The Dream is the finest piece of educational theatre that Vox Bandicoot has ever produced.

The Dream is supported by an exceptional curriculum package called “Imagine”.  Both this material and the performance itself were established in collaboration with a steering committee which included The EPA, ScienceWorks Museum, The Melbourne Zoo School, the (then) Victorian Greenhouse Office and, the Victorian Education Department and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

This program has undergone a short hiatus and is seeking sponsorship to get it back "on the road".

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