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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Museum of Dreams workshop photos
To accompany our production of Museum of Dreams we have had teams out in Primary Schools delivering lovely workshops about the show. The lucky students even got to make puppets. I think I'm going to have to go and find the puppet template to make it myself.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
4 stars for Museum of Dreams
Joyce McMillan from The Scotsman has given our new show 4 stars in today's Scotsman:
"MUSEUM OF DREAMS
True love certainly conquers all, though, in TAG's new children's show Museum Of Dreams, presented in a gorgeous little hexagonal space specially created in the main rehearsal room of the Citizens' Theatre. A curtain opens, and an excited audience of around 20 children are welcomed by a middle-aged caretaker (Keith Macpherson) who shows off his five exhibits, displayed in glowing old-fashioned glass cases around the walls. There's a chair, a violin and banjo, a pair of tap shoes, an old-fashioned gramophone, and a mysterious box; and after the keeper nods off to sleep, a puppet girl in a yellow dress emerges from the box, and dreams and reality – puppet world and real world – begin to merge in ever more exciting and magical ways.
Somewhere at the heart of this lovely show, there's a metaphor about friends or lovers finding one another despite coming from very different worlds. But whatever you make of the slightly sentimental happy ending, Ailie Cohen and Guy Hollands's production is an absolutely enchanting magic toybox of a show, a child's dream come true; and it makes a brilliant curtain-raiser to next week's Imaginate children's festival in Edinburgh, where it plays at the Brunton as part of the usual thrilling international programme for audiences under 16."
Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
Read the full review which also features 4 stars for Ghosts (Citizens Theatre) here. Info about Museum of Dreams here.
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"MUSEUM OF DREAMS
True love certainly conquers all, though, in TAG's new children's show Museum Of Dreams, presented in a gorgeous little hexagonal space specially created in the main rehearsal room of the Citizens' Theatre. A curtain opens, and an excited audience of around 20 children are welcomed by a middle-aged caretaker (Keith Macpherson) who shows off his five exhibits, displayed in glowing old-fashioned glass cases around the walls. There's a chair, a violin and banjo, a pair of tap shoes, an old-fashioned gramophone, and a mysterious box; and after the keeper nods off to sleep, a puppet girl in a yellow dress emerges from the box, and dreams and reality – puppet world and real world – begin to merge in ever more exciting and magical ways.
Somewhere at the heart of this lovely show, there's a metaphor about friends or lovers finding one another despite coming from very different worlds. But whatever you make of the slightly sentimental happy ending, Ailie Cohen and Guy Hollands's production is an absolutely enchanting magic toybox of a show, a child's dream come true; and it makes a brilliant curtain-raiser to next week's Imaginate children's festival in Edinburgh, where it plays at the Brunton as part of the usual thrilling international programme for audiences under 16."
Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
Read the full review which also features 4 stars for Ghosts (Citizens Theatre) here. Info about Museum of Dreams here.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Award Nominations
Liar, our co-production with Sounds of Progress, written by Davey Anderson has been nominated for the Best Show for Children and Young People at this year's CATS Awards (Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland).
Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
The Citizens Theatre is also up for the following:
Sub Rosa
Best New Play
Best Production
Best Director
Best Technical Presentation
The Sound of My Voice
Best Actor (Male) – Billy Mack
Best Design – Jason Southgate & Graham Sutherland
You can read full details of nominations here. Well done to all nominees.
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Photos by Eamonn McGoldrick
The Citizens Theatre is also up for the following:
Sub Rosa
Best New Play
Best Production
Best Director
Best Technical Presentation
The Sound of My Voice
Best Actor (Male) – Billy Mack
Best Design – Jason Southgate & Graham Sutherland
You can read full details of nominations here. Well done to all nominees.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Fixed
Our web designers/hosts assure us that all problems with our website have now been fully resolved.
If you are still seeing any warnings it's just because Google haven't yet re-trawled our site. This should right itself shortly.
All's well, that ends well.
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If you are still seeing any warnings it's just because Google haven't yet re-trawled our site. This should right itself shortly.
All's well, that ends well.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Web problems
Some of you may be experiencing problems with the main TAG website. Our web designers are currently working on an issue with the server.
In the meantime, you can still find out about our work here on the blog, see photos on Flickr, read our Tweets or check out the Citizens Theatre website for info on:
Museum of Dreams
The Red Shoes
Weekly Drama Classes
Summer Academy
We hope to have this sorted as soon as possible, but in the meantime, thank heaven for these wonderful alternate avenues of communication. Ahh, the joys of modern living!
In the meantime, you can still find out about our work here on the blog, see photos on Flickr, read our Tweets or check out the Citizens Theatre website for info on:
Museum of Dreams
The Red Shoes
Weekly Drama Classes
Summer Academy
We hope to have this sorted as soon as possible, but in the meantime, thank heaven for these wonderful alternate avenues of communication. Ahh, the joys of modern living!
TAG's new show premieres next week...
Everyone here has been crazily busy with two big shows opening within a week. Ghosts opens tonight on the main stage, whilst TAG have been working hard to completely transform the main rehearsal room for Museum of Dreams, which has it's first performance on Tuesday next week.
This stunning new show created by TAG with friend and collaborator Ailie Cohen (pictured) is entirely wordless. Using beautiful imagery and sounds the young audience will be taken into the magical world of a lonely museum attendant.
With gorgeous puppets made by Ailie Cohen and Design by Francis Gallop, the audience are brought into a totally transformed room to see live performance, puppetry and projection.
From the very early days of a work-in-progress showing at Peebles, it's very exciting to have finally reached the premiere. We hope you'll be able to join us in Glasgow, but if not then we'll be at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, in Edinburgh from 28 May.
The capacity for this show is very small, so you'll need to be quick to grab the last few seats. One final word of warning which is really just for the adults. This show involves sitting on the floor, so best to wear comfy clothes!
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This stunning new show created by TAG with friend and collaborator Ailie Cohen (pictured) is entirely wordless. Using beautiful imagery and sounds the young audience will be taken into the magical world of a lonely museum attendant.
With gorgeous puppets made by Ailie Cohen and Design by Francis Gallop, the audience are brought into a totally transformed room to see live performance, puppetry and projection.
From the very early days of a work-in-progress showing at Peebles, it's very exciting to have finally reached the premiere. We hope you'll be able to join us in Glasgow, but if not then we'll be at the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, in Edinburgh from 28 May.
The capacity for this show is very small, so you'll need to be quick to grab the last few seats. One final word of warning which is really just for the adults. This show involves sitting on the floor, so best to wear comfy clothes!
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