But What If We Forget Things? Like Her Voice and Smile. We Won T, It S All in Our Memories
Summer Tour2016
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ABOUT THE SHOW
“But what if we forget things? Like her voice and smile.” “We won’t, it’s all in our memories...”
April and Ella’s entire world is changing and there is nothing they can do to stop it. To escape the realities of life, the two sisters use their imagination to create some new friends, together they travel across lands having adventures and learning that no-one is every really gone as long as you have your memories.
Delivered in a child friendly manner,The Girl Who Touched the Starsfollows one family and shows how people cope with illness and bereavement in different ways.
Lincoln-based Cardboard Castles presents their debut show, touring to schools, youth centres, community groups and youth theatres in and around Lincoln prior to a run in August at the world-famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016.
SUITABILITY: We suggest audiences of 7-11 year olds for The Girl Who Touched the Stars due to the somewhat emotional nature of the production. The show is incredibly visual and is designed to be suitable for children, however, it is at the discretion of the school staff whether they deem the production suitable for the children in younger year groups.
DURATION:> Option 1: 50 minute long performance.
> Option 2: 50 minute long performance + Q&A/cast meet & greet.
> Option 3: 50 minute long performance + Q&A + 30 minute workshop.
> Full day package: x4 of Option 1, x4 of Option 2 or x3 of Option 3.
AUDIENCE CAPACTITY: A maximum of 28 young people and 2 supervising adultsper performance due to the close proximity within the tent in which the production is performed.
MINIMUM SPACE REQUIREMENTS: Width: Five metres. Length: Seven metres. Height: Four metres.
CAST(in order of appearance) CREATIVE TEAM
Felicity/SuzieMaria Sands Written and directed by Shannon-Mae Toyne
Harry/Puppeteer Joe Brammer Lighting design by Darren Kelly
Ella Ella Manning Stage Management by Emily Spalding and Harvey Marsh
April India Harpham Original composition by Madeleine Fox
Lolly Madeleine Fox
Frank Daniel Taylor-Brown
PACKAGES
Option 1: 50 minute long performance.
Our cast and crew will perform the 50-minute-long version of The Girl Who Touched the Stars
for the children and staff of your venue. The children will experience the wonderful adventures from
the comfort of our magical tent. We will provide all technical equipment, along with our own lighting
and sound team, we will be solely responsible for our own get-in and get-out. You can just sit back
and enjoy the show! FEE: £50.00.
Option 2: 50 minute long performance + Q&A/cast meet & greet.
Our cast and crew will perform the 50 minute long version of our magical production within our
tent. We will provide all technical equipment, along with our own lighting and sound team, we will
be solely responsible for our own get-in and get-out. Once the performance is complete the cast
and crew will then participate in a meet and greet with the pupils along with a post-show
question and answer session. FEE: £60.00.
Option 3: 50 minute long performance + Q&A/cast meet & greet + 30 minute workshop.
The Girl Who Touched the Stars will be performed to young people and staff
at the venue. Like in the other packages, we will provide all technical equipment, along with
our own lighting and soundteam, we will be solely responsible for our own get-in and get-out. We
will also participate in a meet and greet with the pupils along with a post-show question and
answer session. As well as this, we will also lead a 30 minute workshop with the pupils after
the Q&A. This will be ledby the cast and crew (all of which are trained facilitators) and centred
around our production. FEE: £90.00
Full day package: x4 of Option 1, x4 of Option 2 or x3 of Option 3.
Our full day package gives your venue the perfect opportunity to offer our production to a variety
of year groups throughout the day. The package allows you the decision between four separate
sessions of Option 1 or Option 2 or three separate sessions of Option 3. For either decision
that you settle on, we will provide all technical equipment, along with our own lighting and sound
team, we will be solely responsible for our own get-in and get-out.
FEE: x4 Option 1: £180. x4 Option 2: £220. x3 Option 3: £250.
EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF ‘THE GIRL WHO TOUCHED THE STARS’
At Cardboard Castles, we believe that the arts is crucial for a child’s education. We believe that all
children should have access to the arts and theatre on a regular basis. The Girl Who Touched The
Stars is a piece of theatre that has been specifically created to enhance a child’s theatrical and
creative mind.
The Girl Who Touched the Stars explores the themes of terminal illness and bereavement.
although, the nature of these themes can be emotional, we believe this is part of life and we
aim to discuss them in a creative way through theatre.
Within the production, the characters go on various adventures. The adventures were written in
order to educate our young audiences. Adventures include trips to the Rainforest and the Moon.
children within the audiences will learn a great deal about these areas during the performance.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Cardboard Castles pride ourselves on our strong and professional marketing campaigns, we have two, regularly updated, social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter. If your school or community group holds social media accounts, we encourage and welcome you to use them to publicise our company’s visit.
We ask that you mention/tag our social media pages in any publicity for our production whilst using the hashtag #StarsCC.
Facebook: (The Girl That Touched the Stars)
Twitter: @cardcastles_
HOW TO BOOK US
The Girl Who Touched the Stars is booking its summer 2016 Tour for schools and community groups in Lincoln and the surrounding areas for the dates between Monday 20th June and Wednesday 1st July 2016.
In order to book one of our packages for your educational facility or community group, please contact us and we’ll be more than happy to discuss what we can do for you.
Cardboard Castles are more than willing and capable to adjust our production and/or workshops for anyspecial requirements you may have. Please make these known to us whilst booking with us.
Contact Telephone Number: 07702589471 Email address:
GOING TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE
Cardboard Castles’ debut production of The Girl That Touched the Stars will run at the world famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 after a summer tour of schools and community groups in Lincoln and the surrounding area.
We will be running 22nd-27th August 2016 at Greenside@Royal Terrace: Jade Studio, Edinburgh.
In Edinburgh? Come and see us!
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