LABOUR WEEKEND COMMUNITY THEATRE EVENT - CANTERBURY TALES

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Helen Moran

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Sep 9, 2013, 6:39:01 AM9/9/13
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HI,

You may have heard of this exciting community festival which builds on last year's LuxCity. 
The Free Theatre is creating and animating giant puppets based on characters from Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES in a community event designed to bring people together and enliven the inner city with a Carnivale. 

This event will bring many performing groups together - Pacific Underground, the Chch Symphony Orchestra, and more ,,,  see attached documents. There are medieval songs we are learning to sing at times in the procession, and there'll be movement and mask work.

There are 6 giant puppets being made by Free Theatre designers from characters in Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES.  They all need multiple operators.

I am involved in the development of ideas for the WIFE OF BATH puppet.  Chaucer's Wife of Bath character has been married 5 times and is joyously and flamboyantly a voluptuous and sexy woman. We are looking for puppeteers to move her hands and arms, operate her eyes....  and we are also looking for a troupe of women to develop movements and maybe play with some text - spoken or sung - who flank the giant puppet and who are a lively and joyous expression of WOMAN.  We have all sorts of ideas and are keen to incorporate ideas from all participants so that everyone has a sense of ownership and group creation. Ideas include a Wife of Bath makeup workshop to design an over-the-top character makeup for the parade, and women melting in and out the crowds as a flash mob. 

There are 6 giant puppets - and so if the Wife of Bath is not for you there is a merchant with greedy arms, and a troupe of Friars who need keen operators. There is mask making, singing, puppet operating, dancing...  If you're keen to be involved there will be a place for you. 

We invite you to join this project as a community group or as an individual who would like to be part of bringing this project alive.  We will be working from now until Labour weekend on this at times organised to suit the participants.  The performances are on the Friday and Saturday nights of Labour weekend - the 25th and 26th of October.

Please consider this proposal , or please pass the information on. There are contact numbers in the attachments, and if you are particularly interested in the Wife of Bath,please respond to this email or text me - Helen Moran -on 021 044 1909.

I very much look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes
Helen Moran
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