Imagine This

We did it, and better yet, we did it well! I am so proud of all of us for coming together and putting on such a great show. As Jenny said some of the parents were truly amazed at how enjoyable our show was, and obviously the kids loved it. Seeing those kids laughing and [...]

I wanted to begin my post this week with a quote from David Woods book: ‘Theatre for Children’ that I can really relate with after my own experience of performing in front off children yesterday. “The way they willingly suspended disbelief and entered into the spirit of the performance was incredibly exciting and strangely moving… [...]

Well first and fore-mostly I would like to extend a warm and sincere CONGRATULATIONS to all the – as I am now naming us – ‘Puzzia Players’ of Poppy’s Magnificent Puzzle. It has been a long journey, it a reasonable short amount of time, and I think it was thoroughly well done on our part (even if [...]

WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Just one more sleep to go until we can share “Poppy’s Magnificent Puzzle” with a real live audience! How exciting! I can’t wait to see how our work is received – we have spent so much time speculating how the kids might respond to our questions and challenges and soon we will find out [...]

I’m so pleased we had the opportunity last week to perform in front of Alexander, so thank you Kasia for bringing him! I’m more confident with the way our ideas have come together, firstly from last week’s rehearsal, it flowed really well considering it was the first time we went right through each scene without [...]

So this is it: production week is upon us! Personally I am very excited to actually do ‘Poppy’s Magnificent Puzzle’ for an audience – particually with Alexander’s response to the play on Wednesday morning – lots of particpation and suggestions, so here’s hoping for an audience full of little people like that next Wednesday! Brian Clark, [...]

animals and fairies gather round . Thought I would pop up some inspiration for our makeup/facepaint on the day of the performance. I believe Emily is really keen to do this and I would love to help too! Em are you able to get some face paints for us? I was thinking it’s quite hard [...]

Hi all, just wanted to add a photo of Blossoms orange top, mainly for Tess, just in case it is not what you have in mind, and then you have chance over the weekend to get something else! Hope it is what you thought! Also one more thing, did someone take the fishing wire i brought [...]

Hi all, I really took to Jenny’s idea yesterday of the children getting and putting the ingredients in our ‘fairy bowl’ to make the fairy dust! When I observed Kaska’s son yesterday I noticed that he really did want to get up and be involved. In Moses Goldberg’s book titled ‘Children’s Theatre: A Philosophy and [...]

Here is a song that I found that may be good for the finale. Have a listen and if you like it I will put it onto a CD to bring on Monday. The Two Pigeons – Ballet in Two