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Destroy the precious things

Written by Rohan Gotobed

Director - Kerrie Thirlwell

Producer - Patrick O'Sullivan

Assistant Director - Chloe Gibson

Music Practitioner - Will Pickering

Lighting Designer - Joe Jennings

Sound Designer - Avery Marshall

Props Supervisor - Georgina Drabble

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Performed by MAST Mayflower Studios' Young Company

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26th July 2025

MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton

Four teenagers enter an art gallery. One of them has a can of baked beans. 

The Mona Lisa is also in this art gallery. She's the target of a climate protest.

If we need to break things to save the world, then why is Tabby seeing Leonardo Da Vinci everywhere?

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Written in response to Just Stop Oil throwing soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers, this play explores youth voice in a world run by adults. Join a group of friends as they decide whether to throw baked beans over the Mona Lisa, only to find themselves on a journey to discover the real villains of the story. Is it them? The adults? The activists? Or is it much bigger than that?

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Commissioned by Artful Scribe and MAST, this drama explored the conversation around climate protest through the form of a high-octane heist. 

'We’d like to assure our patrons that no paintings will be harmed during the show. Relax.'

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