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Prelim —Inary PRELIM —INARY ROALD DAHL’S REVOLTING RHYMES & DIRTY BEASTS Adapted for the stage by shake & stir theatre co V1.0 ABOUT LA BOITE ABOUT SHAKE & STIR Your Voices. Your Stories. Your Theatre. Established in 2006, shake & stir is one of LA BOITE La Boite holds a unique place in the Australia’s leading contemporary theatre hearts and minds of artists and audiences in companies specialising in the creation of AND Queensland. For more than 90 years, La Boite new work. SHAKE & STIR has represented the adventurous and alternative. shake & stir produces an annual season of There has always been a strong focus on the in-school and Mainstage productions and a suite development of new work and artists, and today of in-school master-classes and in-residencies for is no different. primary and secondary students. The stories, ideas and voices of our city and shake & stir’s past Mainstage productions country are many and varied and as such La Boite have included: Statespeare (2012 Helpmann seeks to represent and engage in this beautiful Award nomination – Best Children’s Work), Animal and rich diversity; the diversity of form, ideas, Farm (2012 Matilda Awards – Best Independent ethnicity, gender – of identity. Production, Best Direction), 1984, Out Damn Snot, Theatre has the capacity to embrace Tequila Mockingbird (2014 Matilda Awards – Best difference in so many ways. La Boite push the Mainstage Production, Gold Matilda Award), boundaries of form by collaborating with some Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts and extraordinary partners to stretch theatrical, Wuthering Heights. physical and musical boundaries. La Boite plays In 2011, Statespeare (2012 Drover Award with contemporary circus, visual theatre, opera nomination – National Tour of the Year) embarked and cabaret, classical text, the theatrical and on a four-month national tour, visiting theatres in extraordinary international talents. This varied QLD, NSW, VIC, SA and TAS. menu aims to enliven and inspire our existing In 2013, Animal Farm (2014 Drover Award – audiences and draw new audiences to share National Tour of the Year) toured for five months in the La Boite experience – the experience throughout QLD, NSW, VIC, WA and NT. and magic of live performance in our unique In 2014 shake & stir’s adaptation of George Roundhouse Theatre. Orwell’s 1984 toured theatres nationally before returning to QPAC for a sold out season. In 2015 the company’s production of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts will tour nationally and its newest adaptation – Bram Stoker’s Dracula premieres at QPAC in August. As a professional yet fearlessly independent theatre company shake & stir is proud of its QLD heritage and has co-produced with QPAC, Opera QLD, La Boite Theatre Company and Brisbane Powerhouse. La Boite Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts Preliminary Notes 2019 v1.0 P2 SYNOPSIS TRAILER Think you know the stories of the Three Little Watch the Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts trailer LAUGH, SQUIRM, Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow and discuss initial responses. White, Goldilocks or Jack and the Beanstalk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dBPaiKIT8 DELIGHT, SMILE AND Think again! THOROUGHLY ENJOY THE Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty SUBJECT MATTER Beasts bursts off the page in a spectacular live SMORGASBORD OF DAHL’S show that takes the world’s best-loved fairy tales Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and rearranges them with surprising and hilarious and the Seven Dwarves, Goldilocks and Three TERRIFIC AND TWISTED twists. Bears, Little Red Riding Hood Frighteningly funny and seriously silly, TALES THAT HAVE BEEN Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts is the perfect PURPOSE family entertainment for children five to 105. Entertain, Empathise, Celebrate LOVINGLY ADAPTED FOR It will delight and disgust in equal measures. Don’t miss the return of this multi-Helpmann THE STAGE. CONTEXT Award nominated production penned by the world’s number one storyteller and from the team Historical, Cultural that brought you George’s Marvellous Medicine. Intended Audience: think about how this impacts the work being appropriate for audiences 5+ CAST AND CREATIVES FORM, STYLE & CURRICULUM LINKS DIRECTOR Ross Balbuziente Drama: Children’s Theatre, Theatricalising classic DESIGN Josh McIntosh stories for contemporary audiences, Magical LIGHTING DESIGN Jason Glenwright Realism, Storytelling, Collage Drama, Physical SOUND DESIGN Guy Webster Theatre, Role and Character, Ensemble Theatre CAST INCLUDES Leon Cain, Judy Hainsworth, Nelle Lee English: Discuss – plot, character, setting and ILLUSTRATION Quentin Blake events, different types of texts – literature and theatre, explore language and how it’s ESTIMATED represented in different texts, Poetic Techniques, RUNNING TIME Song & lyrics, Different Media types, Fantasy 55 minutes RECOMENDED FOR All Primary Students and Secondary Students in Grades 9-12 La Boite Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts Preliminary Notes 2019 v1.0 P3 ACTING COSTUME → Ensemble Theatre – “This is a perfect → “Costumes in the show are vibrant, fun DIRECTORIAL VISION example of ensemble theatre, with all actors and bold. Each actor has a base costume, playing multiple roles.” with elements added to portray individual & CONCEPT NOTES characters they play.” → Multiple Roles – “They show their skill WITH NAOMI RUSSELL, and versatility be seamlessly switching from narrator to prince, to frog, to wolf, SETTING EDUCATION MANAGER to grandma... you get the idea! Between 4 actors over 40 characters are displayed on → “As this is a collection of stories, the setting AT SHAKE & STIR stage!” changes many times throughout the production. Again, the use of revolve helps to THEATRE CO → Voice, movement, costume and props – transition from one setting to another, as well “The changes in these characters are shown as lighting, sound and clever manipulation of through voice & movement, as well as props from the revolve, rig and by the actors. symbolic costume items and props.” Of course, the magic of story-telling and imagination is highly encouraged in the show MOVEMENT as well.” → “Movement is utilized in a variety of ways. The use of the revolving stage helps to INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES punctuate changes in space and setting. For → “Written in the early 1980s these are Roald example: When the taxi driver takes Snow Dahl’s spin on classic fairy-tales – so White around town, or when the Big Bad Wolf references to the stories we know are evident visits Grandma’s house.” throughout. Each story has its own spin and → Slow motion – “Is also used to create surprise for the audience as the opening dramatic tension, with precision movement lines suggest ‘I guess you think you know this from the actors to convey a fight sequence. story. You don’t. The real one’s much more Highly choreographed sequences.” gory!’ There are references to other works as well – even Kanye West references Dahl in the song Dark Fantasy! The great thing about Roald Dahl is so many people have a connection to his work.” La Boite Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts Preliminary Notes 2019 v1.0 P4 CONNECT WITH ROALD DAHL CHARACTERS Visit the Roald Dahl website, learn about Roald You could have your students create character KEY and even engage with teaching resources. profiles, write monologues, or create scenes www.roalddahl.com/create-and-learn/teach/ between characters in different stories. What if RESEARCH teach-the-stories/revolting-rhymes-and-dirty- Jack met Cinderella or and Ugly Step Sisters met POINTS beasts the Big Bad Wolf etc. ACTOR ONE Ugly Step Sister, Jam Maker, Jack, CONNECT WITH SHAKE & STIR King, Butcher, Dwarf, Baby Bear, Grandma, Wolf, Read the shake & stir Teacher Resource Kit Farmer Bland, Dentist, Roly Poly Bird for script samples, classroom activities and Cinders, Evil Queen, Dwarf, worksheets available on the shake & stir website: ACTOR TWO Goldilocks, Little Red, Little Pig, Mum, Boy, Nurse www.shakeandstir.com.au/ ACTOR THREE Fairy Godmother, Ugly Step Sister, STORIES Mother, Snow White, Mum Bear, Wolf, Little Pig, Girl, Snail, Frenchman You might like to start by getting your students to create versions of these stories, or to do versions ACTOR FOUR Prince, Giant, Huntsman, Snow of these stories in a certain time frame. You could White’s legs, Dad Bear, Little Pig, Pig, Dad, Nurse, create a wall of information of everything that Toad, Frenchman your students remember. ROALD DAHL POEMS → Cinderella You could use some of Roald Dahl’s poems as → Jack and the Beanstalk pretexts to create other work. → Snow White and the Seven Dwarves → Classic Poetry Series Roald Dahl - poems → Goldilocks and Three Bears - Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: → Little Red Riding Hood Poemhunter.com - The World’s Poetry Archive: www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/ pdf/roald_dahl_2004_9.pdf RELEVANCE You might also like to have a discussion about why these stories are still relevant and enjoyable? REVOLTING RHYMES ANIMATED FILM What are their messages? What are we meant to learn from them? Revolting Rhymes is a 2016 British- German computer animated TV film based on the book of the same name written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Retelling and intertwining five of the six poems from the book, the two-part film was produced by Magic Light Pictures and is narrated by Dominic West. The films were created in Berlin (Magic Light Pictures Berlin) and Cape Town (Triggerfish Animation Studios). It aired on PBS in the United States. Its first episode was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards → Teachers’ Resource: Revolting Rhymes Early Years and Level 1 Created by Helen Appleyard Created 2017: www.dca.org.uk/ assets/general/Revolting_Rhymes.pdf La Boite Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts Preliminary Notes 2019 v1.0 P5 THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FRACTURED FAIRY TALES You might be using this to support the creation of You could use the many fractured fairy tales that KEY a Theatre for Young People unit of work, and have exist as starting points for your students to create RESEARCH your students create works suitable for students their own.
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