The Fabularium Ltd Theatre Company
Nov 09
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News 0 comments tags: Acoustic, Cabaret, Collaboration, Coventry, Coventry 2021, Coventry City of Culture, Coventry City of Culture 2021, Coventry University, Dance, Dante Cabaret, Fabularium, Fargo Village, Graduates, Grotesque, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Live Music, Macabre, Mask, Metal, Music, Music Theatre, Noctium, Noctium Theatre, Song, students, Swing, The Box, The Box at Fargo, The Fabularium, theatre, Theatre & Professional Practice, theatre and professional practice, Theatre Department, Theatre Students

Goodnight, Dante Cabaret!

Well, that was a hell-of-a-production! (Apologies, there will be a few hellish puns, gotta get them out of the system.) 5 intense weeks of hard work and effort, song and dance, heavy metal, blood, gore, rude jokes, censorship, paint, saw dust, fabric, gaffer tape, van loading and unloading, lates nights and, of course, repeatedly shouting the band’s name out loud for comedic effect. Not to mention rehearsal, production and performance! It’s been a whirlwind and truly rushed past in the blink of an eye, but what a great time we’ve all had! Dante Cabaret had sellout run of 3 nights in The Box at Fargo Village, and has been one of our most ambitious shows to date. And we’ve absolutely loved it, and had an incredible team of 45 students that have been a pleasure to work with. Their effort, their dedication, their creations are commendable and amazing, so much talent, humour, discipline and strength. What a great bunch!   We’ve thoroughly enjoyed this teaching experience, and hopefully the students have taken a lot away from it! It’s had some great lessons for us too, teaching us more about big indoor shows and how we manage ourselves in the step up in […]
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Oct 23
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News 0 comments tags: Cabaret, Cabaret Macabre, Cart, Choir, City of Culture 2021, clocking, clowning, Collaboration, Comedy, Coventry, Coventry 2021, Coventry University, Dante Cabaret, Dark Humour, Entertainment, Epic, Fabularium, Fargo Village, French Horror Theatre, Gore, Gory, Grand Guignol, Halloween, Humour, Live Music, Macabre, Mask, Poster, Singing, Stilt Walking, TAPP, The Box, The Fabularium, theatre and professional practice, Third Years, Wagon

Live Briefs @ Coventry University – WEEK 3

  It’s been a BUSY week. The pressure was ON and with less than 2 weeks until opening night…. But the students are all rising to all the challenges and pulling out all the stops to get this production up and ready! The story line is being honed, the cabaret acts have been decided and being rehearsed throughout the week with major developments for production and make up, music is being written and rehearsed faster than you can imagine and marketing have been busy promoting this show like crazy! Check out Dante Cabaret Facebook and Instagram to follow live updates… Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dantecabaret18/     Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dantecabaret/   We also held an advanced Acro session to really push the students who wanted to develop that skill. We saw some amazing results in only a few hours and with boosted confidence the students began to combine tricks to start making a routine – The Boneyard Tumblers.   We also attempted a 4 part harmony version of ‘Allegri’ with the 30 performers, and with only an hour or so for the separate parts to practice, the first time we pulled all 4 sections together sounded quite spectacular and is now indeed being used in the […]
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Oct 14
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News, Rehearsals 0 comments tags: Cabaret, Cabaret Macabre, Cart, Choir, City of Culture 2021, clocking, clowning, Collaboration, Comedy, Coventry, Coventry 2021, Coventry University, Dante Cabaret, Dark Humour, Entertainment, Epic, Fabularium, Fargo Village, French Horror Theatre, Gore, Gory, Grand Guignol, Halloween, Humour, Live Music, Macabre, Mask, Poster, Singing, Stilt Walking, TAPP, The Box, The Fabularium, theatre and professional practice, Third Years, Wagon

Live Briefs @ Coventry University – WEEK 2

How goes it folks!   Week 2 down, and it’s been another fun and adventurous one filled with construction, devising, improvising, clowning, singing and music, jamming, stilting, and general play!     So the Wagon has been built and setup ready for the students to explore and become familiar with. We’ve been setting various devising tasks throughout the week for them to produce scenes that they can present on the Wagon, and there’s been some great developments and creations! We also took some time to explore clowning and audience clocking, so that the group can embrace the engagement they will have with their audience during the shows.     One of our tasks was dishing out cabaret acts that we want to see in the show, and what the students came back with was wonderful! Amazing, entertaining, hilarious and downright dark humoured acts that had us in stitches as well as creeped out! They’ve really started hitting the nail on the head and produced some quality acts that will be fantastic for halloween! And so we’ve collected some together, asked for people to continue working on new ideas, and have a good handful of acts that we’re happy to start […]
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Aug 30
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in News 0 comments tags: Appetite Stoke, Arts Council England, Birmingham Hippodrome, Circus Sideshows, Coventry University, Deda Derby, Don Quixote, Fabularium, Firm Footings & Faulty Bearings, Gloucester Culture Trust, Just So Festival, Live Music, Mask Work, New Show, Offsite, Outdoor Arts, Outdoor Arts UK, Promenade, Puppetry, Reynard the Fox, Sancha Panza, Summer in Southside, Summer Tour, The Big Feast, The Fabularium, The Town Band of Bremen, theatre and professional practice, There Be Monsters!, Walkabout, Wild Rumpus

There Be Monsters on the horizon!

The Big Blog Post Hello World! It’s been a little while… Apologies for the continued radio silence, we’ve been exceptionally busy, but if you’ve been tuning into our social media feeds then you’ll know just how crazy and exciting things have been recently! So, here is one of our infamous BIG UPDATES to give you an insight into what The Fabularium has been up to over the Summer. There Be Monsters! The biggest piece of news came a few months ago when we were fortunate enough to recieve Arts Council funding for our new Don Quixote-based promenade/walkabout performance There Be Monsters! We also recieved support from the wonderful people at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Deda Derby’s Offsite Programme, and Appetite Stoke. We spent June and July working with Jim and Matilda, two freelance actor-musicians we auditioned, to devise a new production that would promenade around the streets of Birmingham at Summer In Southside. This show was a step in a new direction for us, as we wanted to create a show away from the Animal Headpieces and exploring a roaming show, but still maintaining our key features of storytelling, live orignal music and mask work. On this show we also worked with Director […]
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