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What Is Performance Storytelling?
Polly Pilgrim
Nanny Nogin
Wanda Weatherwax
Alex & Mikey
The Storybasket
Performance storytelling is exactly as the title suggests, a performance! Highly visual in presentation with costumed characters, simple magic and special effects to enhance the telling and the whole experience. Quite simply It's a little bit of theatre that can be brought to any type or size of venue and will be enjoyed by all ages. .
Story sessions are interactive with lots of opportunity for audience participation
All Characters are able to offer balloon modeling or POI juggleing in addition to the storytelling session.
Racontour (none-character) style sessions are also available for teenage/adult audiences.
Storytelling sessions can be combined with a drama or creative writing workshop. Special rates for schools.
OCCUPATION: Lady Buccanner
Aboard her ship the Toni Marie, Polly sails the Seven Seas collecting treasures far more precious than gold and jewels.
Those treasures are of course stories from the lands and the people she encounters.
Polly's reportoire includes original material and traditional tales. Stories can also be adapted or specially created to feature subject matter of your choice. With a little bit of magic to further the telling, Polly's audience are encouraged to take an active part in the story.
Ideal age range - pre-school to adult. Polly is also very suitable for mix & mingle duties and conducting guided walks around historical venues.
OCCUPATION: Wise Old Woman
Nanny is the original keeper of the Story Basket. Underneath the sparkly red and green cover lie all the things that will create a spellbinding story.
One by one the contents of the basket are revealed as the story unfolds but remember....whatever comes out of the basket, has to go back in again!
Along with Englehart the dragon headed Noggin stick, Nanny transports her audience to enchanted lands where the people and the problems are
not too far removed from those that are
often encountered in our own world.
Nanny is ideally suited to early years age groups and is able to work closely with establishments and education professionals to produce material which will compliment any topic being studied or to achieve a specific outcome. Sessions are interactive with children encouraged to participate in a number of ways.
OCCUPATION: Word Witch
Watch out there's a witch about! But don't worry you won't be turned into a frog because the only spells a Word Witch casts are ones that turn things into stories!!
With a little help from a couple of 'Witchlets', the audience, and a touch of spooky fun, a great story spell is created
and If you are really lucky, as well as hearing a story you may even get to find out what one smells and tastes like too!
Suitable for ages 5 years. to pre teens
Wanda is available THROUGHOUT the year and not just at Halloween. Story content and 'scaryness factor' is tailored to the majority age group present. Wanda ia also available for adult audiences as she has an vast collection of true ghost and witchy tales!
Mickey is a gorgeous little chimp who often finds that the world can be a confusing and frightening place but with Alex's help he begins to understand and feel a lot happier.
Mikey is currently a work in progress project and upon completion will specialise in storytelling for children with special education needs.
Alex is also available as herself for racontour style storytelling, guided walks, history and museum interpretation for both child and adult audiences
Once Upon A Time. and not so long ago,
there lay in an old shop window lots of things that used to belong to other people. There was a pair of brown shoes, a twice worn dress, four books about gardening, six glass tumblers without the box and a very ordinary, slightly dusty, empty wicker basket.
Each day many people passedby the old shop. From time to time a few of them wouldstop to look in the window and one by one all the things on display were sold, except for the wicker basket, nobody it seemed wanted a very ordinary, slightly dusty, empty basket.
Late one chilly Winter's afternoon just as the sun was setting, a lady hurried down the street. She almost walked
straight past the old shop but something in the window caught her eye. She stopped and a huge smile spread across her face. 'At last' she clapped and almost danced a little jig of happines right there on the pavement because she had finally found exactly what she'd been looking for for a very very long time.
You see, to everyone else the basket appeared to be just a very ordinary, slightlydusty, empty wicker basket but the lady knew better, she knew that this was in fact an extra special basket that was full to the brim with something very precious ndeed and she could not wait to share it......
Thank you for reading
If you require further information about any of the characters or would like to discuss your particular requirements please do not hesitate to contact us.
