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Royal Rendezvous
David takes the helm as director for a story by a Little Bird — which he uses as an excuse to get the rest of us hopping around like crazy...!
Barking Mad
Talulah gets stuck into the making of our enchanted forest trees, with the help of PVA glue and moslin &mdash while the storytellers relax the day away...
Bare Bones
Our first real day on our feet developing A Bird In Your Ear sees us playing with skeletons — made out of gardening gloves and lighting stands!
The Team Assembles
Little Birds veterans Gloria and Chip are joined by the talented David and LJ for the first day of rehearsals for our new theatre tour, A Bird In Your Ear.
Planning the Magic
Chip and Talulah are joined by experienced Little Birds storyteller Gloria at the Artrix in Bromsgrove, to begin planning the next few weeks of rehearsal and set building.
Of Goats and Fabric
Chip and Talulah meet with Andy Lawrence from the Theatre of Widdershins to get advice on the set for A Bird In Your Ear... whilst on a farm in the Peak District!
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Here you can find out what our storytellers and design team have been up to as they work their magic turning the stories of Little Birds into a new theatre show called A Bird In Your Ear! Read on, or take a look at our Contents under the Yellow Bird.
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21st July 2011
Today's blog was written by Talulah.
And from a lighting stand, carpet tubes and chicken wire, a tree is made...
So, while the rest of the team were enjoying a well-earned day off (since the studio of the Artrix in Bromsgrove was out-of-bounds), I’ve been a busy bee working on the set for A Bird In Your Ear on the Artrix stage. The creative process is always a fun time, where all your ideas — whether from your head, paper or model — become that more real. Today was that day where I could begin to see what our trees were going to look like... Very exciting!
It was a productive day, working with materials you wouldn't necessarily associate with trees... I used chicken wire to sculpt the trunk and branches, then used strips of muslin fabric coated in PVA glue to form a surface. Think papier-mâché on a bigger scale.
I have to say it was very time-consuming and took a lot of patience. But with good music in the background to keep me going, it was worth it for the final triumph at the end of the day — being that much closer to beginning my next stage of the design...