Les Aventures de Lapin - Production weeks

In early December, Mark Hanly, Deb Pugh, Emily Grant and myself came together to create a new show for primary children under the direction and guidance of John and Sarah. We worked with material from the caribbean, specifically the Anansi style stories of the trickster Lapin. In these stories, Lapin plays many tricks and pranks upon a wide range of characters, mainly other animals, such as Elephant, Tiger, Horse, Whale etc etc. We spent a week turning a chosen few of these stories into a rough piece of theatre, before breaking up for christmas. We returned in January to rehearse with a beautiful set made by Alison Ashton, puppets made by Elena Miller, props sourced and made by myself and Alison and infectious songs written by Ken Patterson. John had updated the script and we spent a further two weeks rehearsing, gradually bringing the show up to scratch for a preview performance at Hexham Middle School on the Friday of the second week.