What makes this redo more tolerable than the usual recycled junk isn't the presence of the Academy Award-winning actress, a first-rate weeper who looks good soaking wet.

In post war London the landscape architect and children's rights campaigner Lady Allen of Hurtwood introduced and popularised the concept of the 'junk playground' - where the equipment was constructed from the recycled junk and rubble left over from the Blitz.

Created by Nek Chand, cleverly using recycled junk and organic materials, the garden is a curious maze of interlinking courtyards, twisting walkways and staircases suddenly emerging into valleys with crashing waterfalls or amphitheatres overrun by figures made of china shards.

They start the show by playing the roots of rhythm from Africa on large recycled telecommunication duct and then on to music from the Americas, Caribbean, Europe and finally end on our huge scaffold structure covered in recycled junk playing the music of Stomp.

The judge ruled that the sculpture, a mix of floor and wall mosaics, recycled junk and reconfigured household appliances, posed no immediate threat.

Between 1956 and 1980, when he died, McKissak used common building materials and recycled junk such as bricks, tiles, fencing, and farm implements to transform his home into an architectural maze of walkways, balconies, arenas and exhibits decorated with mosaics and brightly painted iron figures.

It is a gesture, ambivalent in its motivation, of giving back to the West some of the things - intoxicants, languages, recycled junk - that the West gave to Africa.