Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Reasearch: Theatre


Theatre 1: The polka Theatre

Polka Theatre is a children’s theatre in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton, for children aged 0– 13. The theatre contains two performance spaces - a 300 seat main auditorium and a 70 seat studio dedicated to early years performances. Polka Theatre is a producing theatre which also tours shows nationally and internationally. The theatre houses part of the teddy bear collection of the former Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-on-Avon. The building also features a creative learning studio, a garden, an outdoor playground, indoor play area, exhibition spaces and a cafe. Polka Theatre is a registered charity number 256979 and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. It is also funded by the London Borough of Merton and a number of private charitable trusts and foundations, individuals and commercial companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GBp9m2uwk
This is trailer for a piece by Polka theatre called "Three colours" which appears to captivate the skills of puppetry, movement, silhouette and music. the piece shows successful uses of these for skills but mainly in the movement as all there movements are big and animated like ours will need to be for our production if we will want to get a bigger reaction from the children. They also use projection very effectively as they have this part where a girl eats a strawberry projection and it loses a chunk. This is what we hope will be able to achieve with the beanstalk when we create the beanstalk projection for jack to climb. Overall Polka Theatre appear to be successful in children's theater in the term of movements as they are able to perform big and animated movements that would draw the eye of the children as well as being able to use bright colours in a creative way for the children.
 
Theatre 2: Unicorn Theatre

The Unicorn Theatre is the UK's leading theatre for audiences aged 2–12. The theatre has its home in a custom-built building on Tooley Street, in the London Borough of Southwark, which opened in 2005. The theatre was designed by Keith Williams, built by Arup and comprises two theatre spaces (the Weston and Core Theatres), an education studio, rehearsal space, café and the John Lyon meeting room. The theatre was founded in 1947, by Caryl Jenner; in 1961, Jenner began presenting children's productions at the Arts Theatre in the West End, and in 1967 the company took over the lease of the theatre which then became Unicorn's permanent performing base until 1999. The Unicorn is a registered charity and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCg2qzE8USE
This is a trailer for a unicorn Theatre production of Cinderella for ages 6+, this look like a inspirational performance for our own story telling unit as we can see how all the character s are bursting with colour like the pink ladies and who the characters are over the top like the prince and step mother showing there full of energy. I also noticed that it appears the Step mother is played by a man which is clearly used for comic relief like in our jack and the beanstalk the mother is played by me for a similar reason of humor. I also noticed that there was some big and flamboyant dances which we sort of have but our could use more of the energy and flamboyancy shown in this production. Overall I like the unicorn theatre as it can clear show that it understands how to put on children shows as well as being an inspiration for me into further developing our own production.

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