EARLY DECEMBER 

The stage is up in the school hall.  There are two boxes full of props in the corner of the classroom and there’s some serious word learning to be done.  With over sixty ‘characters’ in the play, and a cast of 35, many of the children will be portraying more than one character.  The challenge is to be ‘in character’ in the right place, at the right time, in the right costume with the right props   It’s fun and exciting,  it’s also hard work – lots of potential for chaos.

 NOVEMBER 

Counting down to the big day (and night), our November sessions involve devising songs music, chants and poems for the performances, more drama ‘games’ and work on tableau formations.

With poet Dave Wood, the children create skipping rhymes, chants, and poems about moving. With 100 years and dozens of different ‘custodians’ living in Number 17 there’s a lot of ‘moving experiences’ to portray.  This is a Christmas performance so we need a carol or two as well.  No problem for the talented children of  Ashbrook Juniors!

Working with the children of Ashbrook Junior School Borrowash, Derbyshire.

It has been an exciting summer for local writer Chrissie Hall.

Working with Director Julian Hanby, Poet Dave Wood, under the aegis of Wash Arts and funded by Heritage Lottery Chrissie’s been writing a stage play tracing the history of a very special Edwardian villa in Borrowash, Derbyshire.