Continuing adventures in making theatre with young people on this blog I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with and don't have the impetus to update with any sort of consistancy.
I created this one with an After School Workshop group. After schools are tricky, because you only have an hour a week, the age ranges can be a bit wacky (this group is like 7 - 12 or something) and the participants come straight after school, so are traditionally extremely haywire. This was a really long process of brainstorming, improvising scenes, cutting characters in and out, and it all went really well. In the end they got the script about three weeks before we went on, so they did an awesome job getting their lines down (mostly!). Before you ask: yes, the actor playing Grandma Slug was adorable.
Onwards, to a small Fairy Tale!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Clown Town!
Next up, welcome to Clown Town!
Circus workshops can be tricky when you only have a week, and this script was devised with a group I worked with internationally renowned goof and Our Man In Africa, Pablo Latona. He focused mostly on clowning work, falls, tumbling, and gags such as the floating briefcase and other such silliness. This worked really well when combined with my bits and pieces of clowning such as double takes, stupid noises and walks, and bouffon.
As always we had a really solid group, and the idea of a town where everyone is a clown was probably the very first one we had. From there things spiraled out of control, as they invariably do, into a fast and funny mess of gags.
Anyway, onwards... to CLOWN TOWN!
Circus workshops can be tricky when you only have a week, and this script was devised with a group I worked with internationally renowned goof and Our Man In Africa, Pablo Latona. He focused mostly on clowning work, falls, tumbling, and gags such as the floating briefcase and other such silliness. This worked really well when combined with my bits and pieces of clowning such as double takes, stupid noises and walks, and bouffon.
As always we had a really solid group, and the idea of a town where everyone is a clown was probably the very first one we had. From there things spiraled out of control, as they invariably do, into a fast and funny mess of gags.
Anyway, onwards... to CLOWN TOWN!
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