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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Feb 19
by Gareth Price-Baghurst in Rehearsals 0 comments tags: Music, Puppets, R&D, Rehearsals, Set Design

Plans Continue…

So we are about to enter some more days of R&D for our new production Reynard The Rox! These next few days see us writing music, devising puppet scenes, finalising the plans for the set design and many more things..everything exciting basically. Watch this space as our plans unfold! Alongside being creative, we have some meetings set up that could lead us in all sorts of directions; more specifically indoors! Yes, The Fabularium are making Reynard an outdoor show with a longer indoor version fit for the rural touring network, so we have a meeting with Live and Local to see about getting us on their books!! So, like I said, watch this space!!!
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