Friday 27th March

This week we had a rough idea on how we could start our performance for our children’s theatre piece. We then put the detail into this and completed this in full. The techniques that we are using in this opening scene are audience interaction, basic dialogue and a childish chant so they can remember. This will then hopefully get them involved with the story and get them ready for story time.

We then would create the scene for our first story “Little Red Riding Hood”. Our group was in charge of making the river. I had the idea that the river would be slanted so that one person would have a puppet on each arm with fishes on them pretending that they were under the sea. There would be then other people who are hidden behind the sheet with fishes on sticks which would also be shown over the river. This idea was not used due to another idea with the river being lifted up and everyone would be the fish underneath the river.

We then started the actual storyline for “Little Red”. We have a narrator and we have an ensemble that is in every scene creating the forest and other parts of the scenery. This will make the kids use their imagination with making the ensemble looking like the part of sceneries. We then decided that we would add a song. We then changed the words to:

“We’re off to see my grandma, my grandma who live in the woods,

  I hear she feels sick, and feel a bit ick, oh what am I going to do?

  I’ll take some treats into the woods, and make her feel better just like I should

  because, because, because, because, because, my name is little red riding hood.

  We’re off to see my grandma, my grandma who lives in the woods.”

I think that the children would recognise the tune and would enjoy the new lyrics and would be able to stay into their heads and it would help them with enjoying them.