We visited the kids at the Cancer Ward at the Children's hospital to ask them for their help. We need some good ideas to make a show for International Children's' Day. The ideas were awesome and so now we are making an interactive show about friendship - a pig (Bruce stars again!) a magic egg and a Rat called Tuti. In partnership with the hospital volunteers group we are putting on a half an hour show for 100 kids and their folks. Next week - ahh! No worries at all - I'm working with professional actor Theo - who is also a Boal fan - Ani - an amazing woman who works creatively in communities and Inna who is a post-abortion counsellor, keen on using theatre in her work. What a dream team! Rehearsals consist of huge amounts of discussing about politics, education, sexual health, theatre in communities - plus ahellovoalot of laughing! Of course we do a bit of acting too....
We have developed a make your own theatre style show with intervention points for the audience. The audience decides which way the story goes - will Bruce finally make friends? What does he need to do for this to happen? Will we discover what is inside the magic egg?! And will Anna ever learn her lines in Bahasa Indonesian? Watch this space!
Sounds exciting and demanding a shame I couldn't see the show but I did read the blog.
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