Saturday 2 May at Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney in the Wheat Barn - Times: 2.30pm and 4.30pmLittle does young John Lampton know as he sits, dreamily fishing in the sunshine before the tale unfolds. A play told through light and shadow, music and puppetry. Written for children and all lovers of theatre, this will be Theatrix’s first visit to Cogges Manor Farm Museum and a chance for visitors to see a taste of what may help set the stage at Cogges from 2010. A fast-paced telling of this traditional tale adapted, designed, directed and told by Theatrix, with puppeteering from students at AWC, this community arts show is just thirty enchanting minutes.
There will be an opportunity for the audience to come and meet the puppets and learn how they were made and move at 3pm. Through this event Theatrix would like to inspire future participation in the company’s projects by the community for when it hopes to move into the Barley Barn at Cogges Manor Farm Museum in April 2010.
For anyone over five, the story has been specially adapted by the director and designer Paul Batten from the Northumberland folk tale The Lambton Worm. The highly visual show is suitable for those with a hearing impairment and the soundscape, narration and music also means that those with a visual impairment could enjoy the story to the full.
The puppets have been made by Theatre Production students at Abingdon and Witney College, who will be operating them and helping to run the show. Paul Batten is also lecturer of the Performing Arts Production course at Abingdon and Witney College. He finds huge educational benefit for his students who are hoping to find careers in technical theatre, when he is able to create opportunities for them to work on events outside of their normal college setting. This show has been written specifically with this aim in mind, and the production standards are set very high for the students to make and operate shadow and rod puppets and run the lights and the sound.
Theatrix Community Arts is one of the Cogges Community Enterprise Group partners and is based in Cogges. Theatrix is currently working with Oxfordshire County Council as part of the CCE steering group to assist in the handover of management of the Cogges site.
This performance has been kindly supported by Oxfordshire County Council and the Cogges Agricultural Heritage Museum Trust.
For further information contact Olivia Thornton, Development Director, Theatrix Community Arts T: 078 559 84624, E: olivia5thornton@yahoo.co.uk
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