Thursday, March 29th 3pm Meeting with Laura (Designer) Youth Hut, Hartfield Laura Stanfield and I worked together on the last community Play, Matters of Chance, in East Grinstead, which is about nine miles from Hartfield. That was Laura’s first community play and she did an amazing job. However imaginative or talented a theatre professional is,...
20 April 2011 - In the last post ‘Killing our imagination’ below, I ended saying something about a longitudinal survey carried out on 1,500 children to test their divergent thinking skills. I set the challenge to guess what percentage at different aged scored at genius level. Here are the results: 3 to 5 year olds...
09 April 2011 - In my last blog I wrote about my first experience of a community play in which a community actor implicated the audience and encouraged them to ‘perform’. When we go to the theatre we indentify and use our imagination but performing is a step beyond imagination, it’s an act of creativity...
07 April 2011 - I’m fond of telling the story of a particular moment that won me over to the idea of the community play. In 1981 I had travelled down from Norfolk to Dorset to see a new phenomenon I’d been hearing so much about, Ann Jellicoe’s third community play, The Poor Man’s Friend...
