Things that never go out of fashion, or do they?

The Tribe; what a fantastic TV show, I love this program, the inspiration and enthusiam of the actors and actress, the love, pain, joy, sorrow, happy, sad, inventive or destructive motives between each individuals gave you so much. As you watched each characters unfold, you can’t help but fall in love with ‘The Tribe’. The only thing I hated was the fact the it ended short of it’s time.

… Where the virus came from no-one knew. From deepest pace, bacterial warfare or some nation’s scientific experiment gone horrifically wrong? Only an intensive inquiry could answer that. But there is no-one left to hold such an inquiry. No adults anyway.

And the few children left behind are too busy surviving to worry about what had plummeted them from a hi-tech world of sophistication – into a primitive hell of anarchy, confusion, danger and fear. With no adults to guide, rule or protect them, the children of the world are on their own. Their task: to build a New World in their own image…

The Tribe will examine whatever that image might be…

Tribal gangs control their patch, protecting individual groups in the area in return for their loyalty which is demanded and must be absolute – at any and all cost. Initially, while stocks last, the gangs provide looted processed food. In the future, unless they can teach themselves the technology to rebuild the world they knew, they will have to become hunters/gatherers like their ancestors.

Individual groups react in primitive, often bizarre and at times manic, uncontrolled ways. But some Tribes realise that with disaster comes a new opportunity. A new responsibility. The future is their’s to create.

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Monkey; As a kid I remember my school friends and I used to call it Monkey Magic and practiced the tricks we saw at the playground. I watched the re-runs of Monkey, but originally it was called Saiyuki a Japanese T.V. series based on a classic Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. Two seasons with 26 episodes each was aired from Oct 1978 to May 1980 and produced by Nippon Television (NTV) and International Television Films.

Monkey was the dubbed English version which was produced by the BBC and 19 of the episodes dubbed by Fabulous Films Ltd and broadcasted in Australia and Britain.

In 2007 a stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West created by Chen Shi-Zheng, together with Damon Albarn from Blur and artist Jamie Hewlett, premiered at Manchester International Festival and subsequently staged in Paris, USA, Berlin and London.

No doubt Monkey/Saiyuki will never be forgotten.

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