autumn 2017
Snow Mouse
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt
The Secret Keeper
Frogman
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FOR EYFS & KS1:
Welcome to our autumn newsletter! This season brings with it a programme of dance, theatre, visual arts and lots of opportunities to get more from your visit with ‘meet the company’ and workshop packages.
KENNY WAX FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
There are some fantastic opportunities to look at different pieces of work which share the same theme, especially for GCSE and A-Level students. You might consider: The role of digital – Frogman and Charge Political Theatre – Factory Girl, The Secret Keeper, Silent and Letters to Windsor House We are also really excited to share details about our new Mead Gallery exhibition, Kaleidoscope. Suitable for all ages, this is a vibrant exploration of 1960s British art. For more information visit warwickartscentre.co.uk/education or contact our groups booking team 024 7615 0930 / groupbookings@warwick.ac.uk.
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FOR EYFS: TRAVELLING LIGHT AND THE EGG PRESENT
Snow Mouse Fri 1 Dec 10am & 11.30am, Tue 5 Dec – Fri 22 Dec 10am, 11.30am & 1.30pm An enchanting winter’s tale for the very young. Winter has arrived and the woods are covered in white. A child hurries to put on their winter clothes so they can run outside and play in a sparkly new world. Just when they start to feel a bit lonely they find a sleeping mouse buried under the soft white flakes. Sliding, tumbling and laughing, they explore the winter wonderland together and keep each other safe and warm from the winter freeze. Come and join the two new friends on their adventures in a magical forest full of play, puppetry and music.
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Thu 30 Nov – Thu 21 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm, Fri 22 Dec 10.30am Direct from a smash-hit WEST END season and international tour. Michael Rosen’s award-winning book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is brought vividly and noisily to the stage in director Sally Cookson’s fun-filled adaptation set to Benji Bower’s versatile lively score. Join our intrepid family of adventurers and their musical dog on their quest to find a bear; as they wade through the gigantic swishy swashy grass, the splishy splashy river and the thick oozy, squelchy mud! Expect catchy songs, interactive scenes and plenty of hands-on adventure! Adapted for the stage from the modern classic written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. 55mins / Age 3+ Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £9.40 OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS This well-known story being brought to life on stage will encourage children to explore their own retellings. Follow-up work in the classroom could focus on music and the recreation of the iconic sounds with instruments, body or voice.
35mins / Ages 3 months – 4 years Helen Martin Studio Schools/Colleges: £8 OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS An ideal first show for your youngest children, this multisensory production explores the magic of encountering snow for the first time. You could look at storytelling and puppetry back in the classroom.
Don’t forget to check out FREE events and activities at the Mead Gallery!
FOR KS3: CURIOUS DIRECTIVE
Frogman Tue 17 – Thu 19 Oct 1.30pm & 7pm The Great Barrier Reef, 1995. Meera is eleven. It’s her first sleepover. Strawberry Dunkaroos, Sega Mega Drive and coral fragment analysis descends into torch-lit storytelling from sleeping bags.
Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a missing child. As police search lights refract through the ocean, the annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out. A coming-of-age, supernatural thriller, this is a groundbreaking, world first theatre experience, experienced in VR headsets from double Fringe First-winners, curious directive.
MOTIONHOUSE
Charge Wed 4 – Sat 7 Oct 7.30pm Charge takes its inspiration from energy – human, bio medical, solar, elemental and atmospheric.
WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE
Extraordinary choreography, digital imagery and LED costumes will bring to life organic composition, weather patterns, energy storage and humans as energy manipulators, creating images ranging in scale from the planetary to the microscopic.
OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS The perfect show to explore how Virtual Reality can support the telling of stories and discuss with your students how digital technology integrates with theatre.
Charge is the culmination of the nine-year Earth Trilogy project, which began in 2009 with Scattered’s exploration of water and continued by delving into the Earth with Broken in 2013.
60mins / Age 12+ Helen Martin Studio Schools/Colleges: £7.50
Frogman
Charge
Lights off. In the corner, Meera’s aquarium is beginning to glow.
65-75mins / Age 7+ Theatre Schools/Colleges: £10 T. Post show talk Thu 5 Oct 8.45pm WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS An ideal pairing with Frogman. This show’s theme of digital explored through physicality will encourage students to consider the role of technology in both a live setting and their personal lives.
FOR GCSE: YANGSON PROJECT
Factory Girl Tue 10 & Wed 11 Oct 8pm Following Ok-soon, a young factory girl in Japanese Korea, Factory Girl explores Ok-soon’s struggles against sexual and class violence during the Korean industrial boom of the 1930s. Based on a short story written by YU, Jin-oh, the original text was published serially in a daily newspaper, the Chosun Ilbo, in 1931. Combining text, movement and sound, an ensemble cast of four performers bring the words to life. Yangson Project is a collaboration between actors Sang-kyu Son, Jo-ah Yangand, Jong-ook Yang and director Ji-hye Park. The company has toured China, Japan and France and performed at various theatres in Korea, including Doosan Art Center, Namsan Drama Center, and the National Theater of Korea. This project forms part of a programme of activity supported by the Arts Council of England and Korea to encourage an exchange of practice, ideas and skills between the two countries with the ambition of creating long term, collaborative relationships between artists and the communities around the world. 60mins / Age 10+ Helen Martin Studio Schools/Colleges: £8 OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS An ideal opportunity to explore theatre from a different culture. Students will be able to compare several theatrical techniques. You might also want to explore how to lift a short story from the page onto the stage.
OUT OF JOINT
Rita, Sue and Bob Too Tue 17 – Sat 21 Oct 7.45pm “As long as you’re alive that’s all that matters” Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling they each think they control. Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play was written in 1982 when she was just 19. It’s a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising future, and hungry for adult adventure. Told with wicked humour, startling insight and a great ear for dialogue, Rita Sue and Bob Too famously became a cult film. The classic play’s original director Max Stafford-Clark directs this major new production.
“Dunbar’s writing is never judgmental or sentimental – she simply wrote about what she knew” The Times 75mins / Age 14+ Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £9 T. Post show talk Tue 17 Oct 9pm WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS The perfect show to compare the ways in which staging a story differs to film. What does the stage offer that film doesn’t and vice versa?
CLERKINWORKS AND OVALHOUSE PRESENT
ACTORS TOURING COMPANY
The Secret Keeper
Living with Lights on
Tue 24 & Wed 25 Oct 7.45pm
Wed 1 – Sat 4 Nov 7.45pm
The Good Daughter wants to make her father happy. “Tell me what makes you so sad. Tell me your dark secret and I promise to keep it safe for you”. He whispers in his daughter’s ear and a great weight lifts from his shoulders. Feeling jubilated he invites the whole town to confide in his miraculous daughter. Soon everyone is flocking to unburden themselves on The Secret Keeper.
Meet Mark.
75mins / Age 14+ Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £8 T. Post show talk Tue 24 Oct 9.15pm
The Secret Keeper
OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS This show’s consideration of when to keep a secret provides an ideal starting point for creating suspenseful scenes and broader social issues such as whistleblowing. The post-show talk will consider these themes in particular and will be worth staying on for.
Mark’s an actor. I keep forgetting my lines. I’ve left my girlfriend and I’m beginning to stink. Mark was an actor. And to make matters worse I’ve met the Devil. Hilarious, touching and utterly bonkers, Living with the Lights On is a gripping story of a life lived at the edge. 80mins / Age 14+ Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £9 T. Post show talk Wed 1 Nov 9.05pm OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS This one man show would make an interesting comparison with Doctor Faustus or The Picture of Dorian Gray – investigate issues around selfhood and ambition. Living with Lights on
But what happens when a murderer confesses? And who is to blame for the consequences…
The thing is I’ve got myself into a bit of a mess...
FOR GCSE / A-LEVEL:
FOR A-LEVEL:
NT and RSC Live Events
Emerge 2017
Warwick Arts Centre is thrilled to screen RSC and NT live events in our cinema. If you can’t take your students to see the live shows why not bring them to watch them with us? We may also be able to arrange a pre or post show talk for the screening. Please contact l.cullen@warwick.ac.uk for further details.
Mon 30 & Tue 31 Oct Emerge 2017 is a two day festival to celebrate and continue to develop the exciting work of Warwick Alumni theatre companies, including Clown Funeral, Barrel Organ, Emergency Chorus and Breach LLP. Through panels, performances and discussions, they address questions surrounding the complex world we live in today.
NT Live: Young Marx Thu 7 Dec 2017 7pm
Emerge is in collaboration with the University of Warwick’s Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning.
220mins / Age 12A Cinema Schools/Colleges: £18 (£11 restricted view)
Two shows per night / Age 14+ Helen Martin Studio Tickets: £7 per show, 2 shows for £11, all 6 shows for £30
RSC Live: Coriolanus Wed 11 Oct 2017 7pm Running time tbc / Age tbc Cinema Tickets: £18 (£11 restricted view)
SH!T THEATRE
Letters to Windsor House Wed 22 Nov 7.45pm Multi award-winning performance duo Sh!t Theatre return to Warwick, following sell-out show Women’s Hour, with their ‘hilarious and heartbreaking’ (Times) take on the housing crisis.
Don’t forget your passport if your school is registered with the Children’s University
Coriolanus
Young Marx
60mins / Age tbc Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £7.50 T. Post show talk Wed 22 Nov 8.45pm OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS A chance for students to see a Universtiy of Warwick alumni company engaging with topical subjects. Recommended for groups looking to explore issue-based theatre.
Image: Rafal Blechacz, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Silent
CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES Our classical music programme for the next year features concerts which relate to curriculum specifications for GCSE and A-Level. These are listed below.
FISHAMBLE
Silent Thu 23 – Fri 24 Nov 7.45pm “Hopeless, helpless, in-the-way person” Homeless McGoldrig once had splendid things. But he lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016. 95mins / Age 14+ Temporary Theatre Schools/Colleges: £8 T. Post show talk Thu 23 Nov 9.40pm OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS An ideal comparison to Letters to Windsor House. Use this show to examine how homelessness affects individuals.
GCSE AQA – Western Music Tradition Beethoven: Recital with John Lill Wed 14 Mar 2018 7.30pm Chopin Piano: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Fri 17 Nov 2017 7.30pm
OCR – The Concert Through Time Beethoven: Flanders Symphony Orchestra Wed 16 May 2018 7.30pm Rachmaninov: Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra Wed 28 Feb 2018 7.30pm
Edexcel - Instrumental Music 1700–1820
A-level Edexcel Vocal Music Mozart: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Fri 17 Nov 2017 7.30pm Wider listening – Handel: Armonico Consort Thu 7 Dec 2017 7.30pm
Edexcel – Music for Film Psycho with live score by Bath Philharmonia Sun 29 Oct 2017 7.30pm You can access free tickets for classical concerts through our Instrumental Scheme which aims to give children and young people experiences of live classical music. Contact j.branson@warwick.ac.uk to find out more.
Beethoven: Recital with John Lill Wed 14 Mar 2018 7.30pm
Into Film Festival The annual Into Film Festival is scheduled to run from Thu 9 – Thu 16 Nov and will include presentations by the BBFC, programmes of foreign language movies and an introduction to cinema-going for your students. Full details will be publicised from the end of August and booking will be through the Into Film website intofilm.org
MEAD GALLERY
Kaleidoscope Sequence and Colour in 1960s British Art An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition Thu 5 Oct – Sat 9 Dec British art of the 1960s is noted for its bold, artificial colour, alluring surfaces and capricious shapes and forms, yet these exuberant qualities are often underpinned by a strong sense of order, founded on repetition, sequence and symmetry. Kaleidoscope looks across media and movements – including Op Art, Pop and Constructivism – to find a common language shaped by sequence and symmetry.
OUR CREATIVE LEARNING TEAM SAYS Come and explore this colourful exhibition either on a self-guided visit or book one of our workshops with content devised by teachers and students. To book contact Lynsey Cullen l.cullen@warwick.ac.uk Workshops: 10am – 12pm KS1 and 2: Explore colour, sequence and composition in this hands on workshop led by our experienced trail leaders. The workshop will culminate in the making of a collaborative sculpture.
This exhibition brings into focus the relationship between colour and form, rationality and irrationality, order and waywardness in art of the 1960s and through the work of over twenty artists including: David Annesley, Anthony Caro, Robyn Denny, Tess Jaray, Phillip King, Kim Lim, Mary Martin, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Tim Scott, Richard Smith, William Tucker and William Turnbull. The exhibition has been curated by Sam Cornish and Natalie Rudd. Arts Council Collection Exhibition is managed by Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England. Age: All Mead Gallery Schools/Colleges: FREE entry
Sculpture Trail
KS3 and 4: Find out more about Op Art, Pop and Constructivism and explore different ways to sketch in the gallery before creating prototype sculptures. You might want to make a day of it by combining a workshop with one of our revamped Sculpture Trails. Stay until 2pm and get hands on with the materials used to make the sculptures in our collection and investigate how sculptures are made before becoming Art Detectives and investigating the sculptures on campus in detail.