education summer 2015

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Hello – and welcome to our schools and colleges programme for the

Summer Term 2015.

Our programme of exhibitions, live performances and film screenings and

all the enrichment activities that surround them are offered to young people

as a key part of our overall creative learning programme. Through this

programme we aim to:-

Spark imagination

Stimulate creativity

Broaden horizons

Deepen knowledge

Develop understanding

Enrich appreciation

Enhance enjoyment The needs of children and young people are the central focus of our

creative learning programme. We ensure that we create many opportunities

for them to experience the richness of the arts with a wide range of

accessible, enjoyable, challenging and stimulating arts learning

opportunities.

I hope that you’ll find much in our Summer programme to interest you and

your students, no matter what their age.

Brian Bishop

Education Director

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Table of Contents

Artistic Programme for Primary Schools…p4

Scamp Theatre: Stick Man...p5

Tall Stories in Association With Kenny Wax Ltd: The Gruffalo’s Child…p6

Artistic Programme for Secondary Schools and Colleges…p7

Live Live Cinema: The Little Shop of Horrors…p8

Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre: The Deranged Marriage…p9

Stan’s Café: A Translation of Shadows…p10

Wendy Houstoun: Pact with Pointlessness…p11

Coney: Early Days (of a better nation)…p12 Shakespeare Week…p14

English Touring Opera: La Bohème…p15

English Touring Opera: The Wild Man of the West Indies…p16

Mead Gallery…p17

COMING SOON - Kneehigh with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs)…p18

Booking Information / Planning your visit…p20

Get More Out of Your Visit…p21

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Artistic Programme for

Primary Schools

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Scamp Theatre

Stick Man

Tue 23 Jun 10.30am & 1.30pm, Wed 24 Jun 10.30am

55mins / Ages 3+ / Theatre / £9 (every 16th ticket FREE)

From the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler – creators of The Gruffalo. Directed by Sally Cookson. Music by Benji Bower. “Taking a child to the theatre is where you can set (their) imagination free.” Sally Cookson, director of Stick Man “Stick Man lives in the family tree. With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three….” But the world outside the tree is a dangerous place for Stick Man. A dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him and he even ends up on a fire!!! How will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree? If you’ve brought children to Warwick Arts Centre before you may well know the work ofSally Cookson. She’s breathed theatrical life into some well-known stories and books on our stages – We’re Going On a Bear Hunt, Tiddler and Other Tales, How Cold My Toes, Clown and The Ugly Duckling. We’re delighted to have Sally back with her “wonderfully exuberant and imaginative” (Time Out) adaptation of this much loved children’s book. “Scamp Theatre send shivers down my spine. I love their production of Stick Man and so do the audiences.” Julia Donaldson “Zesty and delightful … a clever, compelling treat” The Independent

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COMING SOON: Tall Stories in Association With Kenny Wax Ltd

The Gruffalo’s Child

From the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Thu 26 & Fri 27 Nov 10.30am & 1.30pm

Tue 1 – Fri 4 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

Tue 8 – Fri 11 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

Tue 15 – Thu 17 Dec 10.30am & 1.30pm

55mins / Age 3+ / Theatre / £9.20 (every 16th ticket FREE)

One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warning

and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really

exist…does he?

Tall Stories Theatre Company are back! After last year’s run of The

Gruffalo (sold out to schools), they are bringing magical, musical life

to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s captivating sequel.

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Artistic Programme for

Secondary Schools

and colleges

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Live Live Cinema

The Little Shop of Horrors

Wed 10 to Sat 13 Jun 7.30pm

85mins (no interval) / Age 8+ / Theatre / £10

Live Live Cinema have come from New Zealand with this unique and

hectic production that brings film to life on stage.

They take us back to the 1960s with a screening of Roger

Corman’s comedy horror film The Little Shop of Horrors (keep your eyes

open for a very young Jack Nicholson!). But this is a screening with a

difference – the soundtrack has been completely removed. All the dialogue,

music and sound effects will be recreated by a live ensemble in perfect

sync with the film. The danger and excitement of live performance will be

significantly cranked up as only four performers recreate everything

between them – Audrey is also the pianist, Seymour will be on guitar, the

drummer and bassist play all the other characters and all four take

responsibility for the live sound effects – dashing from one side of the stage

to the other. You’ll have to ask the questions – “Will they pull it off?” and

“Where are you gonna look?”

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Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre

The Deranged Marriage

Written and directed by Pravesh Kumar

Tue 2 – Sat 6 Jun 7.30pm

2 hours (including interval) / Age 13+ / Theatre £12

The smash hit show returns for its tenth anniversary.

“This show has been a big hit around the country – a reflection of

audiences’ hunger to see plays that reflect the British-Asian

experience.” The Guardian

Does tradition have any value in our modern lives? Does love have

anything to do with getting married? Rishi and Sona have agreed to get

married in the traditional way and the whirlwind wedding circus is on the

move with or without them. Their frenzied families go into overdrive to

ensure this is the most elaborate wedding ever seen, but hidden amongst

the show-off dance numbers and sparkling saris, a forbidden love story

starts to unfold. As the ice sculpture melts and missing Ladoos continue to

cause mayhem, the young couples cold feet threaten to enter the wedding

mandap.

“A mini-masterpiece of epic humour.” The Stage

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Stan’s Café

A Translation of Shadows

Wed 22 – Fri 24 Apr 7.45pm

60mins (no interval) / Age 14+ / Studio £8.50

A world premiere from local heroes, Stan’s Café.

When silent film first arrived in Japan a narrator, called a Benshi, was

employed to explain the movie – and you would fall in love with them. They

were the stars and they guided you through their interpretation of the

screen images. Though once mighty and numerous, ‘The talkies’ eventually

killed them off.

But now the Benshi is back, in all his glory! Stan’s Cafe have been to

Tokyo and shot Shadows, a beautiful and mysterious silent movie about a

young couple in love. All that remains is for the Benshi to tell us what every

shot and symbol means, who the actors are, why he loves them, why the

director is terrible, when and why we should cry and laugh, what will

happen in the end, why he is the greatest, most indispensible Benshi in

history and why we should fall in love with him.

If only it were a simple as that …

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Wendy Houstoun

Pact with Pointlessness

Tue 28 & Wed 29 Apr 7.45pm

55mins (no interval) / Age 16+ / Studio £7.50

Pact with Pointlessness is a show that asks the big questions. A

philosophical piece of stupidity driven by an urgent sense of futility.

A barrage of old time patter and online chatter fuel the slow, slow, quick,

quick, slow cycles of coming and going in an absurd piece triggered by life,

death and what to do about age in an escapology of strange logic.

The seasoned and award-winning Wendy Houstoun is in defiant form.

Treading the boards once more in (more or less) an hour of absurd action,

breakneck looping chatter and more than a few laughs. Stand up meets

vaudeville eccentricity in this performance of organised chaos.

Co-produced by Southbank Centre, Nottingham Lakeside

Arts with Dance4, The Nightingale Theatre Brighton, South East

Dance and Dance East, with additional support from Arts Council

England.

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Coney

Early Days (of a better nation) Tue 12 – Thu 14 May 7.15pm 2hrs 30mins / Age 14+ / Helen Martin Studio / £7.50

Presented as part of the University of Warwick’s Festival of Social

Sciences.

“If you want to see the future of British Theatre now, then Coney is

one of the companies to watch.” The Guardian

This is the perfect time for students of Theatre to experience interactive

theatre at its best. 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first

Theatre in Education Company in Coventry. Its legacy of audience

interactivity and participation through theatre is being taken to a new and

highly engaging level by Coney and their latest showEarly Days (of a

better nation).

The war is over and the nation lies in ruins. You and your fellow survivors

must build the beginnings of a new country. What are the rules you’re going

to live by? And can you avoid the mistakes of the past?

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A piece of interactive theatre for a playing audience, Early Days (of a

better nation)explores the possibilities of nationhood and democracy,

drawing inspiration from the 2011 England riots, the Arab Spring, Iceland’s

crowdsourced constitution and the rise (and fall) of Occupy.

Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre, National Theatre

Wales and Battersea Arts Centre. Production development supported

by Cultural Institute at KCL andStichting Doen. Funded by the Garfield

Weston Foundation and Unity Theatre Trust. Supported by Ovalhouse.

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Shakespeare Week

Wed 22 – Thu 30 Apr

A programme of digital screenings and conversations that give students of

English and Drama the perfect opportunity to take a fresh and

contemporary look at some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

The week includes a short festival, Seeing Shakespeare Through Other’s

Eyes, revealing how different social experiences and cultural traditions

shed new light on the masterpieces of ‘British’ culture.

Full details can be found on our website:

http://bit.ly/WAC_ShakespeareWeek

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English Touring Opera

La Bohème

Puccini

Sung in Italian, with English surtitles

Fri 24 & Sat 25 Apr 7.30pm

2hrs 10mins (including interval) / Theatre £11

A classic story of young love, La Bohème takes place on a snowy

Christmas Eve in 19th century Paris. ETO’s production will tell the

story straight, with nothing to get in the way of the raw emotion and

beauty of the music.

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English Touring Opera

The Wild Man of the West Indies

Donizetti

Sung in Italian, with English surtitles

Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm

2hrs 30mins (including interval) / Age 13+ / Theatre / £11

The Wild Man of the West Indies is an extraordinary opera which

vanished after initial success. Based on the same story

as Shakespeare’s lost play Cardenio, this is a tale of love, loss and

reunion, set on a Caribbean island to Donizetti’s sumptuous music.

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Mead Gallery

Imagining a University: Fifty Years of The

University of Warwick Art Collection

Wed 29 Apr – Sat 20 Jun 2015

Open Mon – Sat 12 noon – 9 pm

Closed Bank Holiday Mondays and Sundays

FREE ENTRY

Imagining a University examines, decade by decade, how the forces that

shaped the University also influenced the development of the collection. It

will include the work of over 100 artists including Terry Frost, Yoko

Ono, Andy Warhol, Bridget Riley, Patrick Heron, Eduardo

Paolozzi, Jack Bush, Tess Jaray, Melanie Manchot, Fiona Rae and

Richard Long.

Interested in a FREE tour of the exhibition? Speak with our Education Team

to find out more: 024 7657 4786 / 024 7615 1793 or

ed.artscentre@warwick.ac.uk.

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COMING SOON: Kneehigh with Liverpool Everyman &

Playhouse

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love

songs)

A New Beggar’s Opera

Written by Carl Grose

Music by Charles Hazlewood

Directed by Mike Shepherd

Tue 27 Oct – Sat 31 Oct 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2pm

2hr 15mins / Age14+ (very strong language and sexual references) /

Theatre £13

The ever inventive Kneehigh return with their blazing new show. Fasten

your seat belts; it’s going to be one hell of a night!

Based on the Beggar’s Opera, John Gay’s classic musical satire, Dead

Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) is busting with wit, wonder and

weirdness. An extraordinary Kneehigh cast of actor-musicians shoot, hoot

and shimmy their way through this twisted morality tale of our times.

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NOTE: If your students are on half term, they may book individually or with

a group of friends at £13 per ticket.

“A stunning explosion of theatrical pyrotechnics.” ***** The Morning

Star

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Booking Information

To book tickets, contact Helen and Amanda, our dedicated schools’

booking team:

Telephone: 024 7615 0930

Email: groupbookings@warwick.ac.uk

Please note: the schools’ booking team work Mondays, Wednesdays, and

Fridays 10am – 4pm

Risk Assessment

You can download a copy of our risk assessment form from our website:

http://bit.ly/WAC_Risk.

Planning Your Visit

All of the information you require to plan your visit to Warwick Arts

Centre can be found on our website in the ‘Your Visit’ section:

www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/your-visit.

We regularly update the website with information on parking,

accessibility, facilities, and opening hours. If you are unable to find

the information you require, please contact Helen or Amanda in the

schools’ booking team (details above).

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Get More Out Of Your Visit…

Sculpture and Colour Trail

The University of Warwick has an important collection of 800 pieces of

modern and contemporary art that is spread right across campus. We have

developed a Sculpture Trail and a Colour Trail to give individuals, family

groups and school parties access to parts of that collection.

Anyone can follow the Trails independently with the support of Trail leaflets

that are available FREE OF CHARGE from Box Office.

Schools can opt to take either Trail with the support of trained leaders who

can stimulate reaction through observation, drawing and discussion.

Sculpture Trail

Trained leaders take pupils on a journey around campus looking at 5 or 6

works of abstract sculpture. These vary in size, shape, material, colour and

making technique – from the carved marble of Dark at Heart by Peter

Randall-Page to the bird-like painted aluminium of Op Mobile no. 10 by

Nechemia Azaz.

Colour Trail

Children are taken on an indoor trail of abstract art works focusing

particularly on the use of colour, thinking and talking about the spectrum,

how colours are made, the feelings they evoke and the techniques the

artists have used. Works include Orange with Lemon and White by Patrick

Heron and the huge wall painting Everything by Ian Davenport.

Schools can book either Trail by contacting the Education Team on 024

7657 4786 / 024 7615 1793 or ed.artscentre@warwick.ac.uk.

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Talks and Workshops

Warwick Arts Centre holds a range of talks and workshops each season,

suitable for all ages, to support the programme of events. Simply visit the

performance event pages and look for the ‘Get more out of you visit’

section.