The Jermyn Street Theatre will be showcasing a thirty minute adaptation of Edem a new Musical based on the timeless African creation myth, this will be followed by an hour long musical theatre workshop on the same stage.

In the deep Nigerian rainforest the trees are dying. As humans drill for oil the water and the environment is slowly poisoned. When Andrew Walker returns to his father’s business in the Niger Delta, working for a multinational oil company, he finds that everything is not as it seems. Confronted by the starving people he realises that he cannot sit by and watch them suffer.

But out of the darkness something is coming. The garden of Eden, once paradise, has become Edem, the lost world and a mysterious woman steps out of the rainforest to prophesies Andrew’s future. What can one young man do, torn between the ravaging material world and the powerful spirits of his past?

Young people’s theatre company The Last Laugh join with the off-West end theatre Jermyn Street Theatre to present a new musical, combining ancient Nigerian myth with the modern day fight for the environment. Written by the young people, with music and song and a host of forceful characters, the company asks where the young person’s home is, faced by a dying environment. What can one person do alone to save the future of the world?

For more information go to www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk

Jermyn Street Theatre is supported by Westminster Arts