Arrive at 4.30pm for tea and cake and a chance to find out about a range of possible workshops that are on offer and speak to the people that run them. This will also be a good opportunity for the PiE network to catch up, and exchange ideas.
From 5pm you will be able to see excerpts from various productions by different theatre companies such as:
Gemma Khawaja : Liang and the Magic Painbrush
An inventive blend of puppets, origami, live painting and video images bring this well loved Chinese tale to life.
Liang dreams of being a painter but is too poor to buy himself a paintbrush. Join him on a magical adventure where dreams can come true....
Garlic Theatre: Little Red Robin Hood
A merry mix up in the forest involving glove puppets, false teeth and a frying pan. Why is Robin Hood wearing girls clothes and what is lurking behind the trees? Is it the Sheriff of Nottingham or the big bad wolf?
Two classic tales are interwoven in a fast and funny family show. Garlic Theatre entertain audiences with generous helpings of slapstick, clowning and musical delights.
Nutmeg Theatre: Pip's Wildlife Garden
Come with Pip to the wild, glorious, overgrown jungle at the bottom of her garden. Watch the hedgehog feasting on snails, see the barn owl hunting, and if you are lucky, dance with the hare by moonlight.
But wait a minute! What’s grumpy Grandad doing here; clearing brambles, putting up fences, digging the earth, and planting vegetables? Whose garden is it? Pip and Grandad are bound to clash. Grandad shuts the gate, Pip jumps on the seedlings, and something eats the peas. So how will they ever find a way to share the garden, and most of all, how will they all get enough to eat?
Indefinite Articles/Norwich Puppet Theatre: The Chalk Giants
Inspired by the huge figures etched in chalk across our landscape years ago, The Chalk Giants creates a world of magic and mystery with chalk drawings, light, shadow puppetry and evocative music written and performed by Jonathan Lambert. Guyanese-born poet John Agard has been specially commissioned to write a vibrant collection of narrative poems, dialogues and scenes, which are threaded through the story. This original production will captivate and engage children with an elegant mix of storytelling, animation nd images which will bring to life the real and imagined landscape where giants once roamed...
If you are interested in attending, please call the puppet theatre on 01603 615564 to reserve a place (and a piece of cake!)
