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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.
Royal Rendezvous
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23rd July 2011
Today's blog was written by David.
Saturday arrived, and with it came my opportunity to become director of A Bird In Your Ear for the day — well, the morning at least. The first thing I wanted to do was to get going with some improvisation games such as the Alphabet Game and Questions Only. This helped get everyone up, laughing and especially thinking from the word go — all of which they would need for what I was to unleash upon them for the Royal Rendezvous story... Without giving too much away, I felt we did really well with all the running about and quick thinking.
Everyone commented that this particular story was a hilarious one to rehearse, and I know that the energy and enthusiasm will come across in the final show at least as much as with the other stories! By the end of the day, we all felt more confident in our knowledge of the stories, as we cemented our progress with full run-throughs in the afternoon. LJ particularly enjoyed being a man in a story called simply, The Thingy — although perhaps she enjoyed that a bit too much...!
Tallulah took some time out from set-building on the Artrix stage to see what we'd done so far. In return, we got to see what she'd been up to, and we all admitted that her work on the trees was absolutely amazing! The tree we saw was a structure of chicken wire and moslin, looking ghostly, ethereal and absolutely brilliant all in one. We're all looking forward to next week, when we can all get stuck in with the other stories and helping Tallulah with the material side of the production.
All in all, a really fantastic day. Roll on next week!