THE SECRET LIFE OF GREAT COMPOSERS a collaboration between Homunculus Theatre Company & The Southern Cross Soloists (http://www.southernxsoloists.com) The audience is invited into the life of the extraordinary Sir Theodore Electra Smyth from Oxford University. A specialist in classical music, a superb hand bell soloist and aspiring composer, Theodore is on a mission! Many years…
Thoughts Have Feelings Too is a gentle and funny performance that shows students how to think positively about the feelings they experience in their day-to-day lives in a primary school environment. The students meet two clowns: Sweet ‘Clown’ and the absent-minded ‘Professor’. When the two clowns meet in the Professor’s laboratory, they discover that thoughts…
20 Lazzis In A Hat is pure entertainment! An exciting journey into the heart of Commedia Dell’arte: promising students non-stop fun, comedy and excitement. Audiences will discover the origins of Commedia Dell’Arte and will witness, first hand, the nature of its improvised nature.
Through the use of high level physicality, balloons, poetry, balancing chairs, acrobatic antics and clown, these two highly experienced circus theatre performers promise to take you on a thought provoking and thoroughly entertaining journey through the ups and downs of life.
That’s All Folks is a five star-spangled vaudeville show of yester year! From the beautiful to the bizarre, this show features a powerful and charismatic cast of internationally renowned acts from around the world. Juggling, Acrobalance, Bell Routines, Slapstick, Comical Routines, Musical Chairs and more!
This high energy workshop introduces students to the joy of dramatic story telling. A series of scaffolded exercises help students develop devising skills to tell stories of their own creation onstage using narration, mime, voice and movement.
In this workshop students will discover their inner clown (everybody’s got one!) and have each other rolling on the floor laughing one minute and ‘awwing’ in sympathy the next. This training is incredibly rewarding for your students, as it develops their authenticity, venerability and confidence.
Specifically designed to introduce students to the world of Mask Theatre, this includes Verbal to Non Verbal, Full Face to Half Face mask work. Students explore ensemble performance, mask technique, the inner monologue and devising skills in order to clearly demonstrate comical and/or dramatic meaning on stage. Mask styles covered: Basel Masks Grotesque Masks Trestle…