London Theatre Challenge :: Autumn 2010

Application Form

HOW TO BOOK

PLEASE NOTE: Your completed application form is your confirmed request, not a provisional one.

We are unable to offer refunds for any unused tickets. Please see back page of leaflet for booking details.

Please complete clearly in block capitals. Items will an * MUST be filled in to process your application.

• Please complete the application

*School: *Name of teacher:

*Job title:

*Address:

*Borough:

*Email:

*Fax:

*Tel:

*Ext:

*Mobile:

Please state the best time of day to reach you:

*Year group(s) you’ll be bringing: *Please state clearly your reasons for bringing the proposed group of students (e.g. relevant to scheme of work, etc.)

Tickets are limited to approximately 40 pupils per school at ONE of the productions.

There must be at least one teacher per 10 students.

Please number your choices as #1, #2, etc.

Five Guys Named Moe

Deadline for applications: Friday 3rd September

__Tuesday, 14th September at 7.30pm

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__Wednesday, 15th September at 7.30pm

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Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella

Deadline for applications: Friday 29th October

__Tuesday, 30th November at 7.30pm

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__Wednesday, 8th December at 7.30pm

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Deadline for applications: Friday 3rd September

__Wednesday, 15th September at 2.30pm

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__Wednesday, 29th September at 2.30pm

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The Day the Waters Came

Deadline for applications: Friday 10th September

__Wednesday, 6th October at 1.45pm

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__Friday, 8th October at 10.45am

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Please send me more information about the INSIGHT session. Yes/No The Glass Menagerie

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 27th October

__Wednesday, 24th November at 2.30pm

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__Tuesday, 30th November at 7.30pm

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Tribes

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 5th October

the application form, especially contact details including an email address and mobile number.

• Tickets are strictly limited,

Are you happy for us to call you out of school hours? Yes/No

Oliver!

and return it by post to The London Theatre Challenge at the address below, or fax it to 020 7632 4111.

• Please complete all sections of

*Postcode:

__Thursday, 4th November at 3.30pm

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__Wednesday, 10th November at 7.30pm

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Please send me more information about the INSIGHT session. Yes/No

so we cannot guarantee your application will be successful.

Priority will be given to schools new to Mousetrap Theatre Projects and those with a higher percentage of students on free school meals.

Mousetrap Theatre Projects enables young people with limited resources, access or support to engage with the best of London’s theatre.

We offer innovative theatre access, education and audience development projects to stimulate and inspire young people. At the heart of our work is the desire to open doors to young people who might otherwise consider London’s rich cultural heritage closed to them.

• Schools may only attend one

production, although you may rank as many choices as you wish. Following the application deadline, we will confirm whether or not your school has been successful.

• Your tickets will then be booked

and an invoice issued. Please do not apply for tickets you cannot use and please check the school calendar carefully in advance.

• If you have any further queries,

please contact Elaine Grant on 020 7632 4116 or email elaine@mousetrap.org.uk or andrew@mousetrap.org.uk.

Mousetrap Theatre Projects 23-24 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London WC2E 8ND T: 020 7632 4116 F: 020 7632 4111 E: elaine@mousetrap.org.uk www.mousetrap.org.uk Registered Charity no. 1053434 The London Theatre Challenge is kindly supported by

...inspiring young people

The London Theatre Challenge

London’s best theatre for just £5 a ticket

Autumn Term 2010

...inspiring young people

Five Guys Named Moe

The London Theatre Challenge provides unrivalled access to top London theatre for secondary school pupils for just £5 a ticket.

The Day The Waters Came

Book by Clarke Peters, Music & Lyrics by Louis Jordan Theatre Royal Stratford East

By Lisa Evans Unicorn Theatre, A Theatre Centre Production KEY STAGE 3+

KEY STAGE 3+

Fry and of course Five Guys Named Moe and features Sizzling with dance, comedy dazzling choreography and and the irresistible music of jazz legend Louis Jordan, this unforgettable comic performances.

20th anniversary production stars the show’s original www.stratfordeast.com creator Clarke Peters. The n Tues, 14 Sept 7.30pm score of this award-winning n Weds, 15 Sept 7.30pm show includes Choo, Choo Ch’Boogie, Saturday Night Fish

Each production is offered with: n Free Teacher’s Resource Pack n Question and Answer session with members

of the cast and/or production team

Photo: Simon Annand

INSIGHT SESSIONS

Sucker Punch Insight session, July 2010

These 90-minute sessions take place before the matinee performances. Designed as participatory master classes, Insight sessions are facilitated by key members of the company and creative team (such as the director, writer and stage manager) and offer a first-hand insight into the creative choices made in staging a theatre production.

This Autumn Term choose from:

“The students had a memorable time after ‘connecting’ with the writer and actors.”

Tribes

Teacher, Graveney School Summer 2010

The Unicorn Theatre Wednesday, 6 October 11.00am to 12.30pm

Royal Court Theatre Thursday, 4 November 12.30pm to 2.00pm

The Day the Waters Came

Cost: £75 per school group

Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella Choreographed by Matthew Bourne, Design by Lez Brotherston Sadler’s Wells KEY STAGE 3+

results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing Set in London during the Second World War, Matthew young RAF pilot, together Bourne’s interpretation of just long enough to fall in Prokofiev’s haunting score love before being parted by the Blitz. has, at its heart, a true wartime romance and his storytelling has never been www.sadlerswells.com n Tues, 30 Nov 7.30pm more passionate and touching. A chance meeting n Weds, 8 Dec 7.30pm

Oliver!

Written by Lionel Bart, Directed by Rupert Goold Theatre Royal Drury Lane KEY STAGE 3+

songs, including Food Glorious Now in its 2nd record-breaking Food, Consider Yourself and year, Oliver! is one of the most many more. beloved British musicals, with www.oliverthemusical.com its ever-popular story of the boy who asked for more. With a n Weds, 15 Sept 2.30pm cast and orchestra of over 100 n Weds, 29 Sept 2.30pm the show features memorable

It’s summer 2005. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand - sometimes the throat - and leads you through her landscape on the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing.

Go with her as she shows you how her world and that of thousands of black American citizens changed forever on the day the waters came. www.unicorntheatre.com n Weds, 6 Oct 1.45pm n Fri, 8 Oct 10.45am

The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams Young Vic KEY STAGE 4+

Tom, a young would-be poet, struggles to support his overbearing and sentimental mother and his delicate, obsessive sister. The subject of this deeply touching, autobiographical play is

the most fragile of all human emotions – hope. One of the finest works of one of the greatest Twentieth Century dramatists. www.youngvic.org n Weds, 24 Nov 2.30pm n Tues, 30 Nov 7.30pm

Tribes

By Nina Raine Royal Court Theatre KEY STAGE 4+

Nina Raine’s second play is a fascinating dissection of belonging, family and the limitations of communication.

Billy’s fiercely intelligent and proudly unconventional family is their own tiny empire, with their own private language, jokes and rules. Billy, who is

deaf, is one of the few who actually listens. Meeting Sylvia makes him finally want to be heard; can he get a word in edgeways? www.royalcourttheatre.com n Thurs, 4 Nov 3.30pm n Weds, 10 Nov 7.30pm