Jun 09
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in Rehearsals 0 comments tags: Animal Characterisation, Animalia, Birmingham Hippodrome, Cautionary Tales, Charity, Charity Cycle Ride, Childline, Coventry, Coventry University, Cycling, festival, Heavy Metal Truants, Just So Festival, Magical Moving Trees, Music, musical instruments, Naughty Flock of Sheep, New Landscapes, Nordoff Robbins, outdoor theatre, Peasants, Rehearsals, Singing, Summer in Southside, Tales of Animalia, teaching, Teenage Cancer Trust, the cautionary tales, The Fabularium, theatre and professional practice, Theatre Students

End of New Landscapes, Start of Animalia, and Summer in Southside

Good afternoon! We’re extremely busy as always; prepping for tour, working with students, doing charity bike rides, but let me break this down for you: New Landscapes So, sadly, the New Landscapes module has come to an end, and it drew to a close with an almighty BANG! The Cautionary Tales for Children Considering Ill Behaviour was a resounding success, with great audiences on both show days. Thank you to all who came to see the show, the students did a magnificent job and we can’t believe our time with them is over, but we couldn’t be prouder of what they have all achieved!       There are plenty of pictures and videos to see, just head to our social media pages to check them out (we took a lot of Boomerang videos on our Instagram, check them out! @TheFabularium) Animalia Rehearsals We got back in the rehearsal space this week with a group of Cov Uni theatre students and members of the Fabularium pool to prepare for our return to the Tales of Animalia at Just So Festival this Summer! We’re currently cycling through our repertoire, introducing the students to the animal characters, sheep, peasants, Cyclops and Trees, as well as rehearsing some […]
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Mar 03
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News 0 comments tags: Acro-balance, Acrobatics, adaptation, Cautionary Tales, Coventry, Coventry University, Music, outdoor, outdoor performance, outdoor theatre, story, storytelling, students, tales, teaching, The Fabularium, theatre, theatre and professional practice, University

New Landscapes @ Coventry University

How’s it going all! So this week marked the first week of The Fabularium’s project with Coventry University Theatre and Professional Practice second year students in their outdoor performance module ‘New Landscapes’. For the first three weeks it’ll be just myself with course leader (and Fabularium Associate Director) Glenn Noble while Gareth is away working on another production, but then he’ll join in the mix and we can see how things take shape! We’re currently running skills sessions with 53 students and providing them with the styles, techniques and exercises to help develop and create a piece fit for high primary school age that is suitable for outdoor performance (in this context the specifics are no tech support). In smaller groups they’ve been given a story to adapt into a 5-minute scratch piece ready for next week, which is the beginning of development for the main piece that will be presented at the end of May/start of June.   The show will be titled: Cautionary Tales…for children considering ill-behavior! If you’re unfamiliar with them then give it a Google, some very entertaining stories. (Such as Hoffman, Belloc, Grimm and Busch). I’ve really enjoyed my first week, they’re a good bunch and willing to work, […]
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