Progress this week

Two main things to report....

Firstly, a meeting with Olly, and some preliminary ideas about the set.  I don't think I will put anything about them yet on the blog, becasue there is too much still to be decided, but Olly is really pleased with the images from Leighswood and the Dream Tree, and talking with him helped me narrow down on some of the choices I have to make.  We think that the squirrel will be a glove puppet, which will mean more or less 'to scale' - thats to say a realistic squirrel size.  For this play there may not be that much more puppetry.

We do have to solve the problem of how to fly on the rug, though.  hmmmmmm

The other thing was the final session of the term at Leighswood.  This was great, because we talked about what our play actually means.  not, what happens in it, but the themes, the messages and the meanings behind it.  I knew the Leighswood group would have some good ideas, and they didn't let me down.  I feel as if I know what the story is now, and also 'why.'

There were a few main themes we found:

Some are environmental - about the tree, and the endangered tiger [I notice more in the paper today about that, only 3200 tigers left in the world!]

Others are about being brave, about co-operating across cultures.

But the key one is about old people and young people.  The children think that the old lady is a witch, she has forgotten the time when she was a child.  By the end of the story they understand each other....  this thought is going to be very helpful when I write the script - in the next week or so.

watch this space, and it should be coming soon.

I wish I did not have so much admin work to do, with applying for funding and other projects...grrrr

I also discoverd that next Lunar Year is 'The Year of the Tiger'   fantastic!!!!!