Announcing The Great Big Conker Competition!
Our Associate Company Fevered Sleep are looking for conkers for their production of Forest. They’ve already collected dozens, but are looking for hundreds more! We have a box by the Box Office dying to be filled. Please give us a hand.
Plus! Whoever can find a conker larger than this and send us a photo of it (or drop it off at the box office) before the end of September will win something fun!
Go forth and conker!!
Fevered Sleep’s And the Rain Falls Down. Photo by Keith Pattison
And the Rain Falls Down has been playing for the past 3 weeks to full-houses here at the Young Vic… it’s been such a delight seeing children, parents, teachers and guardians coming in all dressed up in wellies and rain gear! With only a few performances left, we will be very sad to see it go. If you haven’t managed to buy a ticket, it’s not too late – the show will be touring to Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool over the next month.
Some of the things we’ve overheard in the theatre…
It’s going to rain The water! He got some boots What that lady doing? It’s raining Puddle!! Uh-oh They’re having lots of fun aren’t they? She needs a towel Water finished now It’s all full of water Her hair’s wet Whoa! Fishes! Quack Quack Quack I wanna to do that That’s funny It doesn’t matter if my boots get wet An Umbrella, an Umbrella, an Umbrella Drip-drop, drip-drop Umbrella in the sky Little ducks She wants the water Haha, I got wet Wow! The sun! It’s a rainbow This show’s about getting wet and deception is about goodies and baddies
Were you there too? Let us know what you thought of the show!
Posted in And the Rain Falls Down
“And the Rain Falls Down is part of a trilogy of projects that have been inspired by the daily rituals of a child’s life. Our very first project for children, Feast your Eyes, explored stories of food and eating, and broke the mealtime rule that you shouldn’t play with your food. More recently, Brilliant explored the strange imaginings, beautiful dreams and powerful emotions that come to us at bedtime, when it’s time to turn out the light. And the Rain Falls Down grew from talking about the pleasure and physical play that come from having a bath: when water turns into a something to grab and pour and catch, something that changes form, that envelops and entrances, and something that always, always, eventually, trickles away.” Read more here >>
David Harradine, Direction & Design
And the Rain Falls Down runs from 24 February – 12 March
Posted in And the Rain Falls Down
Tagged And the Rain Falls Down, David Harradine, Fevered Sleep
Theo Peters (c) Keith Pattison
Exciting times with Fevered Sleep. On Ageing opened last night. My goodness it’s an incredible project to be involved with. From the first technical rehearsal last Thursday where the seven children (aged 7 to 13) were ‘on their own’ for the first time with no prompting from the directors, to a high energy dress rehearsal on Saturday night to the first preview last night – it’s a risky old process to be involved in. The children are amazing. Their commitment to the show is a wonder. And the most exciting thing as an audience member (although not necessarily for the creative team!) is that you never know what they are going to do next. I can’t wait to see it again. Every night will be different and every show will give me a new and different perspective on what it is to be a living, growing and ageing human being.
Louise Blackwell
Producer, Fuel
(Written 4 September)
We’ve just finished our fifth week of rehearsals, and the show is finally beginning to reveal itself. I never cease to be surprised by how bonkers devising is. It’s a bit like looking for something in the dark, and not knowing what you’re looking for, and certainly not knowing where the light-switch is. All you can do is hold tight, keep your eyes open and hope that you’ll see it coming, the show, the thing you’re looking for.
Now that we can see what On Ageing might be, it’s turning into a very exciting time, every day discovering new possibilities in the material, and new directions to explore, and digging deeper and finding more.
Watch this space – and who knows, by the 27th September we might actually have discovered the full magic of what this show wants to be…
David Harradine (Director of On Ageing)
Posted in On Ageing
Tagged David Harradine, devising, Fevered Sleep, On Ageing, process, rehearsals
Why create a show about ageing, performed by children?
Director David Harradine explains…
On Ageing is not a piece about ‘being old’, it is a piece about ageing, and as such it is about something that everybody, whether they’re six or sixty or ninety, can relate to.
After talking with a lot of older people, the same idea kept emerging… people continue to feel young even as they become old and that gives us the image of having a younger person’s or even a child’s outlook on life, at the same time as living with an ageing body.
Fevered Sleep has made a lot of work for children, in which we’ve involved children in our creative processes. We wanted to take this one step further, and see if it was possible to create a show using all our usual approaches and ideas, only working with children.
Buy tickets / More info about the show >>
Our Associate company Fevered Sleep’s latest show opens in four weeks. For those who follow their works (or ours!), you’d know that Young Vic has only ever presented Fevered Sleep’s family works. Well you are in for a treat – this time, although it is a cast of children, the show is aimed at adults. And that’s what makes it more the interesting.
The concept is based on growing, changing and ageing – and those fleeting moments and memories that mark us throughout our lives.
The cast is working with hundreds of objects – it’s amazing they can remember where everything goes and that so many things can fit on a stage. Rehearsals are looking great. We can’t wait to see the finished work. Georgie, Joe, Laroque, Madeleine, Theo, Tsipora, Vaughn – it’s been a delight to have you around.
Buy your tickets and more info about the production here >>
Check out some photos taken during/in between rehearsals…
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