23/03/18- Children's Theatre introduction

Children's Theatre 

We will be performing on June the 25th 

The play we are trying to devise will be based on the book Goodnight Stories For Rebel girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, this story is about 100 stories about important women such as painters, tennis players, engineers etc.
It creates good role models for younger girls/children, while also showing that anyone can be who they want to be no matter the gender, race, ethnicity etc.

Initial Thoughts:

• Create a playground in the space for the audience and cast members 
• We can get the audience to create art, get them to paint with us therefore adding some audience interactivity 
• We can show a variety of artists across the world 
• because the book is all true stories, we can find the truth and meaning in them 
• At the end the book says a little girl should feel empowered and we should teach younger boys the same 
• We want to empower people in the audience
• start off with a fake idea/story for example a princess than destroy it (Prince and Princess)
• The children could colour something throughout the show so that way they have created art in the show 
• Have actors playing the important women and allow the children to interact with each of the women
• We can maybe also find men who have broken the gender stereotype, and include them as well so it shows equality 

Children's Theatre Skills:

• deep understanding of the issues your'e trying to convey 
• we need opportunities for interaction 
• allegory- technique used to help kids understand 
• the use of  music and sing to convey themes 
• Stylize attitudes include many aspects: dance, music, puppetry 
• Have a clear objective 

Told by an idiot - children's Theatre company 

-use of a slap stick 

made music using claps and instruments 

sense of layers appearing in the music (progresses)

energised

characterised

different 

simple set 

telling the story in the background 

muscularity when telling the story to get his point across 

multirole

changing the costume and how they create with the space 

more unexpected things as it brings it to life and makes it fun