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Showing posts with label Ailie Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ailie Cohen. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Museum of Dreams workshop photos
To accompany our production of Museum of Dreams we have had teams out in Primary Schools delivering lovely workshops about the show. The lucky students even got to make puppets. I think I'm going to have to go and find the puppet template to make it myself.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
4 stars for Museum of Dreams
Joyce McMillan from The Scotsman has given our new show 4 stars in today's Scotsman:
"MUSEUM OF DREAMS
True love certainly conquers all, though, in TAG's new children's show Museum Of Dreams, presented in a gorgeous little hexagonal space specially created in the main rehearsal room of the Citizens' Theatre. A curtain opens, and an excited audience of around 20 children are welcomed by a middle-aged caretaker (Keith Macpherson) who shows off his five exhibits, displayed in glowing old-fashioned glass cases around the walls. There's a chair, a violin and banjo, a pair of tap shoes, an old-fashioned gramophone, and a mysterious box; and after the keeper nods off to sleep, a puppet girl in a yellow dress emerges from the box, and dreams and reality – puppet world and real world – begin to merge in ever more exciting and magical ways.
Somewhere at the heart of this lovely show, there's a metaphor about friends or lovers finding one another despite coming from very different worlds. But whatever you make of the slightly sentimental happy ending, Ailie Cohen and Guy Hollands's production is an absolutely enchanting magic toybox of a show, a child's dream come true; and it makes a brilliant curtain-raiser to next week's Imaginate children's festival in Edinburgh, where it plays at the Brunton as part of the usual thrilling international programme for audiences under 16."
Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
Read the full review which also features 4 stars for Ghosts (Citizens Theatre) here. Info about Museum of Dreams here.
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"MUSEUM OF DREAMS
True love certainly conquers all, though, in TAG's new children's show Museum Of Dreams, presented in a gorgeous little hexagonal space specially created in the main rehearsal room of the Citizens' Theatre. A curtain opens, and an excited audience of around 20 children are welcomed by a middle-aged caretaker (Keith Macpherson) who shows off his five exhibits, displayed in glowing old-fashioned glass cases around the walls. There's a chair, a violin and banjo, a pair of tap shoes, an old-fashioned gramophone, and a mysterious box; and after the keeper nods off to sleep, a puppet girl in a yellow dress emerges from the box, and dreams and reality – puppet world and real world – begin to merge in ever more exciting and magical ways.
Somewhere at the heart of this lovely show, there's a metaphor about friends or lovers finding one another despite coming from very different worlds. But whatever you make of the slightly sentimental happy ending, Ailie Cohen and Guy Hollands's production is an absolutely enchanting magic toybox of a show, a child's dream come true; and it makes a brilliant curtain-raiser to next week's Imaginate children's festival in Edinburgh, where it plays at the Brunton as part of the usual thrilling international programme for audiences under 16."
Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
Read the full review which also features 4 stars for Ghosts (Citizens Theatre) here. Info about Museum of Dreams here.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
TAG's new show premieres next week...
Everyone here has been crazily busy with two big shows opening within a week. Ghosts opens tonight on the main stage, whilst TAG have been working hard to completely transform the main rehearsal room for Museum of Dreams, which has it's first performance on Tuesday next week.
This stunning new show created by TAG with friend and collaborator Ailie Cohen (pictured) is entirely wordless. Using beautiful imagery and sounds the young audience will be taken into the magical world of a lonely museum attendant.
With gorgeous puppets made by Ailie Cohen and Design by Francis Gallop, the audience are brought into a totally transformed room to see live performance, puppetry and projection.
From the very early days of a work-in-progress showing at Peebles, it's very exciting to have finally reached the premiere. We hope you'll be able to join us in Glasgow, but if not then we'll be at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, in Edinburgh from 28 May.
The capacity for this show is very small, so you'll need to be quick to grab the last few seats. One final word of warning which is really just for the adults. This show involves sitting on the floor, so best to wear comfy clothes!
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This stunning new show created by TAG with friend and collaborator Ailie Cohen (pictured) is entirely wordless. Using beautiful imagery and sounds the young audience will be taken into the magical world of a lonely museum attendant.
With gorgeous puppets made by Ailie Cohen and Design by Francis Gallop, the audience are brought into a totally transformed room to see live performance, puppetry and projection.
From the very early days of a work-in-progress showing at Peebles, it's very exciting to have finally reached the premiere. We hope you'll be able to join us in Glasgow, but if not then we'll be at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, in Edinburgh from 28 May.
The capacity for this show is very small, so you'll need to be quick to grab the last few seats. One final word of warning which is really just for the adults. This show involves sitting on the floor, so best to wear comfy clothes!
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Museum of Dreams at the Imaginate Festival
Museum of Dreams will appear at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival in Edimburgh in May. Booking has opened for school groups. Check out the Imaginate website for more details.
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