Two actors are devising a show in a school hall when an audience arrives unexpectedly! Their play is not ready to be shown in public but instead they decide to share their play-making process with the audience. Through innovative story-telling, humour and extraordinary physicality they:

• Explore five starting points from which to make a play: Theme, Script, Found Story, Personal Story, Issue.

• Demonstrate diverse theatrical styles by converting one scene into  different genres: Shakespeare, Contemporary, Action Hero.

• Experiment with ways to create characters: inspired by a piece of costume, a  voice or accent, a particular physicality, an 'inner action', a state of tension.

• Discover the techniques of Improvisation: making, accepting and extending offers.

• Physicalise a script: through a fusion of dance, circus skills, mime and movement.

• Play with theatrical transitions, props, musical score and possibilities for research.

Co. Theatre Physical employs comedy, dexterous physicality and diverse skills to bring you dynamic, educative theatre!

Suitability: Years 7-13
Duration: 50 minutes
Price: $4 +GST per child, 120 children minimum audience.

Extensive Teachers Notes available

" 'That was so cool – I want to try those ideas in my work.' Responses like this are like gold for busy teachers looking for new ways to inspire and excite their students. Co. Theatre Physical put the spark into the devising process by providing a hilarious insight into the elements and conventions of play making. The clever use of physical theatre techniques like mime, movement and acrobatics provide inspiration and hilarity as we follow the endearing characters through numerous scenarios designed to explore drama elements, techniques and conventions..."

- Duncan Allan, HOD Performing Arts, Selwyn College, May 2010