HOW TO SAVE A ROCK
How To Save A Rock is a bike-powered family comedy about how to still have hope – made by multi-award winning Pigfoot, the first explicitly carbon-neutral theatre company in the UK.
Following successful runs at the National Student Drama Festival, Edinburgh Fringe & VAULT Festival, we now embark on a digital tour, having reworked How To Save a Rock for online audiences at Slung Low. We’ll be streaming our digital show and workshops to The Albany, Poplar Union, Camden People’s Theatre and Pound Arts, alongside schools in their local communities, between 25th April – 8th May. Supported by Arts Council England.
The Show
It’s 2026, and we’ve found a letter from the last ever polar bear. He’s somehow ended up at the top of Scotland. We’re going to save him.
Join us on a wild polar bear chase, through peat bogs and protests. We might just need your help…
How To Save A Rock is a bike-powered family comedy about how to still have hope.
This show is entirely carbon-neutral. The lighting is powered by a bike cycled live on stage, production materials are recycled and recyclable, and the digital footprint of streaming is offset.
Winner of the 2019 Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the Samuel French New Play Award, Camden People’s Theatre Award & the Staging Change Award for VAULT Festival 2020.
The Company
Pigfoot are a multi award-winning carbon-neutral theatre company, dedicated to making collaborative theatre with & and for those grappling with the climate and ecological crisis. We reject the current systems we live in, but we embrace ecosystems and global connectivity.
We make devised work with & and for those grappling with climate and ecological crisis, as well as running workshops for schools, young people & theatre-makers.
Our work ‘practises what it preaches about climate change.’ (The Sunday Times on Pigfoot) and protests from within an industry which, in London alone, has been shown to have a carbon footprint of 50,000 tonnes a year – equivalent to driving a car 1.5 million times around the M25.
WINNER of the Sustainable Fringe Award 2019 for Best Company, an inaugural prize at the last Edinburgh Fringe, recognising those with the will and creativity to tackle climate change.