Description
SLINGSBY’S
MAN COVETS BIRD
BY FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER
DIRECTOR/ORIGINAL CONCEPT BY ANDY PACKER
Recommended for students in years 7 - 12
“Brilliant feel-good family theatre with a depth that speaks to any generation.” Sunday Mail.
From Slingsby, the award winning company that brought us The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (2009), and Wolf (2011), comes Man Covets Bird, a life affirming coming of age journey about flying from nests, birdsong and the nature of man and wild things.
A boy wakes to find he has grown up. He recognises the stranger in the mirror, but his parents and his town do not. Outside his childhood bedroom he finds a bird that cannot fly and together they embark on adventures. This is the story about their journey to the big city, what they find there, what they become a part of and what they make for themselves.
This wildly inventive production incorporates animation, live music and prose to tell a tale that blends equal measures of melancholia and sunshine. Receiving unanimous critical and audience acclaim at the 2010 Adelaide Festival premiere, Man Covets Bird was the recipient of a number of awards including the 2010 Ruby Award for Best New Work.
COMBINED EXCURSION
Make a day of it by combining a performance at SOH with an atyp workshop. See the show, take a 'dramatic' discovery walk around the foreshore with an atyp tutor and create your very own piece of theatre in a hands-on, practical workshop at The Wharf.
CURRICULUM & TOPIC LINKS
STAGES 4 & 5
Drama: Monologue, Set Design, Contemporary Australian Theatre, Non-realism English: Storytelling and Narrative, Prose, Personification, Identity music: Theatre Music, Australian Music, Music of the 21st Century, Incidental Music
STAGE 6
Drama: Individual Project- Performance & Set Design, Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice, English: Belonging, Into the World Music 1: Theatre Music, Australian Music, Music of the 21st Century Entertainment Industry: Staging, Vision Systems, Lighting
Slingsby Website
Venue: The Studio
Dates: 15 - 17 August
Duration: 90 minutes including Q&A