2003

OCTOBER 2003

She has written and performed a new play for pre-school children. It is another story about Miss Miggins and is called “Miss Miggins and The Fox Cub”. Miss Miggins cat is missing the morning after the fox attacked the chickens in Farmer Jack's hen run. She is eventually found in the company of a new friend who also becomes part of Miss Miggins' household. The play premiered at Loughborough Town Hall at a pre-school event with another performance booked, October22nd, at the nursery unit, Angram Bank Primary school , Sheffield .

On Saturday October 25th Mary will be working in collaboration with children's book illustrator Lynne Chapman at Rotherham Arts Centre over two days. On the first day, Mary will be giving performances of some of her plays from “The Adventures of Odysseus” series followed by drama workshops where the children, inspired by Mary's performance, will devise their own stories.

On the second day, using these stories as a starting point, the children will then create illustrations with Lynne from which they will design and make a unique mask. Lynne's web site is www.lynnechapman.co.uk

The Disabilities Arts Project is now well under way and should be operative in January. This is an arts project for young adults that Mary is setting up with funding from Social Services Derbyshire County Council. Mary, (who will be teaching drama), is working on another collaboration, this time with Beki Betts music therapist. Mark Money, a multi media consultant, who will be making a photographic record of the work helped by the young people, will join them.

AUGUST 2003

The autumn Term is to be an exciting one for Mary. Firstly, she is to work in collaboration with two different artists on two different projects.

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Mary has already given three performances of her new play "The Unwelcome Hero" with other performances booked. This is a new version of Odysseus' last adventure and his return home after the war in Troy .

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