ABOUT THE SHOW (continued)

Music and scientific fact comes together for the first time in a spectacular multimedia show. Inspired by the groundbreaking TV series and book by Sir David Attenborough, 'Life on Earth', our show uses the analogy of condensing the entire Earth's history into just one calendar year, thus illustrating the exponential growth in diversity of life and the potential environmental crisis we face today.

The evolution of life is explained through fourteen musical chapters:

Chapter 1 - The Microscopic Universe
From the Earth's formation to the first sparks of life in the oceans of our infant planet. This opening chapter covers the arrival of DNA and includes the concepts such as cell division, the basic characteristics of life and the simplest organisms.

Chapter 2 - Bodybuilding
"Colonies of cells begin to build" - This chapter covers the sudden explosion of biodiversity during the early Cambrian period over half a billion years ago, paving the way for all of today's major animal groups.

Chapter 3 - The Struggle For Light
The photosynthesising plants breach the seas soupy shores and lay down their roots on dry land for the first time in the Earth's history.

Chapter 4 - Strength In Numbers
The lands first animal invasion consists of an army of armour plated arthropods and soft bodied invertebrates, forming a myriad of complex new ecosystems. This chapter focuses on insects - the pioneers of flight.

Chapter 5 - Shake Your Backbone
Back in the seas, our earliest discernable ancestors - the start of the family of Vertebrates.

Chapter 6 - Streamlined
Fish, convergence, the shaping of an organism through it's environment - form follows function.

Chapter 7 - The Land of the Amphibians
Characteristics of amphibians, the first land vertebrates, metamorphosis.

Chapter 8 - Reign of the Reptiles
What makes a reptile, mass extinction, the golden age of dinosaurs. "They came, they saw, they conquered and then...Meteor!"

Chapter 9 - Lords of the Air
Feathers from scales, adaptation and natural selection.

Chapter 10 - Milk
Mammals, different methods - placental/marsupial/monotreme, occupying empty ecological niches

Chapter 11 - We Are Mammalian
Rapid diversification, genes, the theory of evolution

Chapter 12 - Hooves, Horns & Teeth
Characteristic of carnivores/herbivores/omnivores etc. How your diet shapes you. The constant arms race between the hunter and the hunted.

Chapter 13 - Life in the Trees
The advance of social groups and the benefits it can bring, primates, brain power

Chapter 14 - The Power of Speech
Development of communication, use of tools, higher conciousness and the arrival of mankind. With the most dramatic consequences.