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December 2007

 

Currently Mary is working on a new production for Crich Carr Primary school Derbyshire. She has been asked to give a performance about ancient Rome. The first part of the play is her Greek one “The Horse of Troy” (already in repertoire and much performed). The new play follows on from this and is about  the Trojan, Aeneas escaping from the burning Troy with his family , carrying his aged father on his back, his adventures and the ultimate founding of Rome. These exciting adventures appeal very much to KS2 children but can also be performed appropriately to KS3 pupils studying Classical Greece.

 

 

From  January 2007

 

January and February saw many performances of Mary’s new play of last year “The Friendly Giant”

 

In and among her busy time-table of work of performances and workshops the more unusual engagements included workshops in three Sure Start centres in  Erith, East London where Mary, using the picture book “Some-one Bigger”, had pre-school children developing the story in their own performance for parents. Written and illustrated by Jonathan Emmett and Adrian Reynolds  whom she had met  in Leicester when they and Mary were part of a programme giving presentations to schools made a good network ing contact for them all.

 

In March Mary gave two days of performances of a newly commissioned play “The Lady of the Wood” for Groundwork, an environmental organisation in Leicester. Dressed as a vagrant Mary acted her story in a wood (still managing some costume changes!) to four local primary schools. Taking the Greek story Erisichthon Mary modernised it to include the environmental issues of preserving trees, plants and positive use of wastage rather than dropping litter in such places. In August she was invited back to perform the same play at an open day at Groundwork.

 

In August Mary was invited to Belfast in Northern Ireland to work on at estate at Rathcoole. This sectarian estate had many issues with the young people there and Mary was to work with three distinct groups: children 6-11yrs, young people and adults with disabilities and young people 12-16yrs.

 

In three workshops the primary children developed their ownplay based on themes from Mary’s play “Aiolos” (who was the Greek King of the winds) which was then performed to staff at the Youth Centre.