Description
PRESENTED BY WINDMILL THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BORDER PROJECT
ESCAPE FROM PELIGRO ISLAND
BY FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER
Recommended for students in years 4 - 7
INTERACTIVE EVENT: Students will each be given a hand-held electronic voting-device to determine the action on stage.
“Every bit the sort of classic story-telling of adventure comics, complete with cliff-hanger scene-endings.” The Advertiser
Everything was normal on your flight over the ocean… until the plane went down and you crashed on an unknown island! Now there are vampires, time machines and superpowers to deal with, and any decision could mean life or death. The hardest part – it’s you, the audience who decides!
This is ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ theatre, where students are given their very own handheld controller and are responsible for steering the narrative of the play – no two shows are the same. Escape From Peligro Island empowers the audience through electronic voting to choose where the play will go. The audience dictates the fate of the characters, where they end-up and what they will do, all in hilarious circumstances!
This is a fantastic opportunity for English and Drama students to explore techniques for playbuilding, characterisation, story-telling and the role of audience participation.
COMBINED EXCURSION
Make a day of it by combining a performance at Sydney Opera House 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 2 & 3
English: Structuring a Narrative, Complication and Resolution in Narrative Creative Arts (Drama): Explorers, Dramatic Storytelling
STAGE 4
English: Structuring a Narrative, Fantasy Drama: Playbuilding, Melodrama, Comedy, Children's Theatre, 'Breaking the Fourth Wall'
May also be relevant to students studying: Science & Technology, Design & Technology
Windmill Theatre website
The Border Project website
Venue: The Studio
Dates: 24 - 27 April
Duration: 80 minutes including Q&A