Jabuti Theatre has just finished an exciting 2 weeks working on their new project, My City.
My City tells the story of two characters, Soledad and Eibhleann, who speak different languages. One Gaelic, one Spanish. Eibhleann lives quietly in a crumbling dystopia; her surroundings are plastic rubbish which she collects, sorts and places neatly around her. When the chaotic and wild Soledad interrupts her order with her babbling Spanish tales of exciting adventure their two worlds collide. But, in each other they see hope for their desire to change, this world and themselves. Using visual images to share each others stories they overcome the obstacle of words and embrace the beauty and brokenness of their environment; building a friendship and a home.
This visual storytelling for children aged 7-10 looks at our environment and explores alternative ways of communication using puppetry, objects and acrobatics alongside an original score inspired by Gaelic and Latin music and culture.
We spent 2 weeks, from the 4th - 15th June 2012, developing the initial idea of the project with support from Imaginate and North Edinburgh Arts.
Through Imaginate we built on our ideas, creating story and character, with Ailie Cohen and we experimented with different performance techniques, taking a short workshop in clowning with Maria Oller.
Through NEA we ran workshops with children aged 10 and 11 from Forthview and Craigroyston primary, creating dystopian worlds and then trying to solve the problems in them and then we finished off the workshop building amazing marionette style puppets out of plastic bottles!
Jabuti Theatre are planning to tour My City in autumn 2013. Keep your eyes on here for further developments in the project - links with Latin America and continuing work with amazing Scottish based theatre makers!
Special thanks to Fiona Ferguson from Imaginate and Kate Wimpress from North Edinburgh Arts! We created some really great stuff and are eager to start on the next stage. Also, thank you to Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons for photographing, filming and assisting with the workshops.
View the photos HERE
My City tells the story of two characters, Soledad and Eibhleann, who speak different languages. One Gaelic, one Spanish. Eibhleann lives quietly in a crumbling dystopia; her surroundings are plastic rubbish which she collects, sorts and places neatly around her. When the chaotic and wild Soledad interrupts her order with her babbling Spanish tales of exciting adventure their two worlds collide. But, in each other they see hope for their desire to change, this world and themselves. Using visual images to share each others stories they overcome the obstacle of words and embrace the beauty and brokenness of their environment; building a friendship and a home.
This visual storytelling for children aged 7-10 looks at our environment and explores alternative ways of communication using puppetry, objects and acrobatics alongside an original score inspired by Gaelic and Latin music and culture.
We spent 2 weeks, from the 4th - 15th June 2012, developing the initial idea of the project with support from Imaginate and North Edinburgh Arts.
Through Imaginate we built on our ideas, creating story and character, with Ailie Cohen and we experimented with different performance techniques, taking a short workshop in clowning with Maria Oller.
Through NEA we ran workshops with children aged 10 and 11 from Forthview and Craigroyston primary, creating dystopian worlds and then trying to solve the problems in them and then we finished off the workshop building amazing marionette style puppets out of plastic bottles!
Jabuti Theatre are planning to tour My City in autumn 2013. Keep your eyes on here for further developments in the project - links with Latin America and continuing work with amazing Scottish based theatre makers!
Special thanks to Fiona Ferguson from Imaginate and Kate Wimpress from North Edinburgh Arts! We created some really great stuff and are eager to start on the next stage. Also, thank you to Daniel Lacasta Fitzsimmons for photographing, filming and assisting with the workshops.
View the photos HERE
Que bueno mostrar como se puede trasmutar el muro de las palabras.. a veces
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