Grin & Tonic School
Season 2006
| Will Shakespeare in Love ! | |
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Will Shakespeare in Love !
is the title we give to
Grin & Tonic's
most
popular program. We have presented various versions of
Will
Shakespeare in Love !
for
your Seniors in previous seasons, and this fresh version is now being developed
for your new stream of
Seniors in 2006. This ever-changing program of Shakespeare
scenes, loosely clustered round the ideas and experience of LOVE, specifically
addresses the most recent syllabus requirements, allowing students to take up
their own positions in relation to Shakespeare’s great writing.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth will play out their dramatic duo scenes and discuss their decisions from the standpoint of their fragile relationship, Hamlet and Ophelia briefly try to make sense of the power world around them and the disastrous misunderstanding between them that is involved, Juliet and Romeo's final moments take a radical contemporary interpretation, true to the text, but bringing us closer to the life-and-death questions that confront today's youth. The program will also look at one or two of the less famous characters who live in the outskirts of Shakespeare's best-known plays and Katherina and Petruchio will also have their moment! These more serious elements of Will Shakespeare in Love! are given comic bookends and in this program for upper grades, there will also be a variety of performance styles, including the use of songs, gymnastics and choreographed movement. |
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| Shakespeare at his most appealing, and Grin & Tonic’s youthful actors bring his text to vibrant life.... | |
| You Name It ... | |
| The main thrust of
this program is for your Years 8, 9 & 10 to meet the great Global
poets face to face, and to be excited by the presentation in action
of their ideas and their writing.
You Name
It
embraces the wide world of international poetry, and engages with
great voices of the present and the past, both from Australia and
elsewhere, exploring why they and their poetry are regarded as being
great ! From the 20th Century: Judith Wright, Brecht, Oodgeroo,
Yeats, Bruce Dawe and others, and from earlier Centuries: a little
Coleridge, William Blake, Sophocles, Rimbaud, Persian Sufi poetry,
and a touch of comic Shakespeare as well .... also a bawdy-politcal
nursery rhyme ! The actors of Grin & Tonic claim in this program that poetry can speak to us in ways that ordinary words cannot, and that it can reach dimensions outside the range of our daily language. The young audiences are then invited to respond to this claim both in the program and in any followup work that English teachers may chose to set. Our entertaining purpose is to guide young student audiences towards an active realisation of how a creative encounter with poetry can help their own understanding of an increasingly complex world .......
There’s another strand as well, which is Grin & Tonic’s
constant challenge to our young audiences to respond to their own
poetic impulses and to write their own verse. This program,
You Name
It, even
includes a short poem written by a young Queensland student, and in |
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