A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tenderfoot
Introduction to Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Rehearsal
The Snow Queen

 

 

 

 

 
A Midsummer Night's Dream  
2nd, 3rd & 5th October 2008  
Storytellers and The Irish Chamber Orchestra are collaborating to bring you this original production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which fully integrates Mendelssohn's music with Shakespeare's text.

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Tenderfoot  
October 2008 - January 2009  

TENDERFOOT is an apprentice programme for transition year students interested in theatre.  No experience is required.  The only requirement is interest.

 An apprentice learns on the job, working alongside masters of their field, putting what they learn into practice under expert supervision.

 TENDERFOOT will culminate in the production of a number of the original plays written during the programme. 

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Introduction to Shakespeare  
November - December 2008  
An exciting project aimed at Junior Certificate Students.

Storytellers aim is to offer a unique and immediate theatre experience introducing Shakespeare to the students. Working with the text prescribed for the Junior Cert, three professional actors and a director will present each scene focusing on character interpretation, language structure, possible themes and the cultural/political context in which Shakespeare was writing.

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Shakespeare in Rehearsal  
January - February 2009  
An exciting project aimed at Leaving Certificate Students.

Storytellers aim is to offer a unique and immediate theatre experience focused completely on the text without the distractions of set, lighting and costumes. Three professional actors and a director will present each scene focusing on character interpretation, language structure, possible themes and the cultural/political context in which Shakespeare was writing.

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The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson  
Autumn 2009  

Hans Christian Andersen’ s classic tale ‘The Snow Queen’ will be adapted for the stage by Philip Osment. This rich and haunting ‘coming of age’ tale offers Storytellers a wonderful opportunity to create a new piece of music theatre with fantastic visual opportunities. .

‘The Snow Queen’ is a complex story of how faith and love can overcome evil. The splinters of an ancient, broken and evil looking glass are in the air around us waiting to fly into an unsuspecting eye. These shards of glass can turn a good heart into a lump of ice - and a good person into a gift for the Snow Queen. The Snow Queen’s bleak, empty, icy world is the home for people who have lost that ability to love.

This is what happens to young Kai as he is seduced and kidnapped by this icy queen. She kisses away his shivers and his heart virtually becomes a block of ice. Kai’s friend, Gerda, takes off on a long journey to find him. She encounters many different worlds on the way; an enchanted flower garden; a flight through the Northern Lights; the ice palace of the Snow Queen herself - a figure powerful enough to 'tie all the winds of the world together'.

Gerda finally finds Kai in the Palace and as she sings a hymn to him her tears fall on his chest and they thaw out his heart. The evil splinter in his eye is washed away by his own tears. The two friends return home as spring returns to the world. Kai and Gerda realise that they are children no more and that ‘childhood’ is gone forever.

 

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