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The Pirates of Penzance - Langley Park
29 July 7:30 PM
The Gilbert & Sullivan Youth Festival
The company is drawn from three Bromley schools: Langley Park Girls, Ravens Wood and Langley Park Boys. This will be our second collaboration with West Wickham Operatic Society, the first being Les Miserables School Edition in July 2008 – for which a temporary 500-seat theatre was constructed in the grounds of Langley Park Girls School for 6 sell-out performances. The project was an unforgettable experience for all those involved (students, staff, WWOS members); many new friendships were formed and dreams realised.
WWOS is a musical theatre company that performs twice a year at the Churchill Theatre in bromley. Whilst the company specialises in productions such as The Producers and The Full Monty, the roots of the society are in the Savoy operas and the operettas of Ofenbach and Lehar.
John Hargreaves is head of music at Langley Park Girls School and Kevin Gauntlett is the Director of WWOS. They have worked together on many shows for WWOS, the being the Broadway version of Pirates. They are back together for what is sure to be an exciting reunion in Buxton. Read more about this event … or
Occasionally Ovid
29 July 7:30 PM
Buxton Puppet Festival 2010
This one-woman puppet whirlwind deftly mixes mask work and puppetry into a hilarious yet poignant physical storytelling technique. Occasionally Ovid retells three poems from Ovid’s Metamorphisis, telling the story of Erisychthon, condemned to infinite hunger; Phaethon and his first (and last) meeting with his estranged father (the sun); and Tereus and his marriage breakdown after a disagreement over their offspring’s sex. The stories tell of extreme emotions and the show entwines Roman fantasy together with the more human, everyday relationship elements seamlessly. The strength of the characters and their communication with the audience, as well as the improbability of the puppets, constantly take the performance into new areas, each show is a unique theatrical experience.
Suitable for over-16s only. Read more about this event … or
Marcus Clarke - Puppetry for Television
30 July 10:00 AM
Buxton Puppet Festival 2010
A unique opportunity to create and perform a puppet character for the screen with leading TV puppeteer, Marcus Clarke (of Hands Up Puppets fame).
Marcus (who earlier in his career worked with the legendary Jim Henson) has more than sixty UK children’s TV series to his credit and is currently the puppeteer and voice of Bookaboo (awarded Best Pre-School Live Action Kids BAFTA 2009 and Best Children’s Programme Broadcast Award 2010).
Marcus will provide all the materials you will need, and will then help you and your fellow participants record a sequence on film using your puppets, watching it back on his TV monitors and improving your onscreen techniques. A unique opportunity!
Marcus supports the work and development of Funny Wonders Inc as a puppeteer and company director.
For young people aged 16 & over and adults. Maximum 15 places. Read more about this event … or
Chicken Licken
30 July 2:00 PM
Buxton Puppet Festival 2010
A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down. On the way to tell the King, she meets Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky & Turkey Lurkey, but there’s a shocking surprise! Chicken Licken grows up to be the Little Red Hen and asks her friends to help her make bread, but no one wants to play! Mixed into this recipe of food, puppets and music is the story of Little Red Hen and the sly Foxy Loxy. Will she outwit him and save her stuffing? This one-man show is a trilogy of classic tales from the Ladybird books. Starting as a baking demonstration, the show rapidly becomes the adventures of a growing chick and her encounters with a hungry fox. Read more about this event … or
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