In Bath's award-winning egg theatre for children, young peopleand their families, the huge range of productions in the new seasonincludes The Last Miner, which uses puppetry, light and aninnovative soundscape to recall an incredible life lived throughcoal dust.
Winner of Best Newcomer and Spirit of the Fringe Awards at the2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones isperformed by Jeff Achtem from Montreal who creates surreal shadowpuppets from everyday items in a feast for the imagination.
Half Moon's enchanting new show Rip, Fold and Scrunch fusestheatre, Kathak dance and live music within a paper world while ThePaper Washi Wish features traditional Japanese storytelling(Kamishibai) and a hands-on papermaking workshop.
PUPPETRY : Coal dust and darkness Tucked In Productions stagesTim and Light, a moving new fairytale about a boy and his cat toldthrough puppetry while Lyngo Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith havecollaborated to create Snow Play, in which the audience gets thechance to make a snowman and join in a massive snowball fight.
Musical highlights include The Night Queen by Philip Monks whichhas been inspired by Mozart's The Magic Flute and, as part of theBath International Music Festival, By Jove's urban sounds celebrateParty in the City at the egg.
Creative Sound Factory joins children and professional musicianstogether to compose original music; and multi-instrumentalist JohnKenny plays a 12-foot, Iron Age Carnyx.
NEW SHOW: Rip, Fold and Scrunch is a fusion of theatre, dance andmusic Two stage adaptations from Oliver Jeffers' much-loved booksinclude Lost and Found, Travelling Light's new production about aboy, a penguin and a trip to the South Pole and Big Wooden Horsepresents The Way Back Home, an inter-galactic adventure about a boyand a Martian.
Highlights from the three-week Young Americans season, pioneeringcultural exchanges and readings exploring the American Dream,include Alan Parker's gangster musical Bugsy Malone. Dance piecesinspired by jazz and folk music of 20s and 30s America in TheDevil's Music are performed by YPT Dance and Batavia is staged byRedfoot Youth Theatre from Perth, Australia.
The classic story of The Grapes of Wrath is performed by YPTActing.
FAIRYTALE: : A boy and his cat are the focus of Tim and LightDiploma students from City of Bath College present Peter Hall'sacclaimed adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm while graduatingperforming arts students from Bath Spa University present HatchingOut which includes Spring Awakening, Frank Wedekind's lyricaltragedy about the trials and tribulations of growing up. DNA is acompelling contemporary drama about what happens when a practicaljoke ends in tragedy while there is an adaptation of Angela Carter'sfabulous novel, Nights at the Circus.
This year's Storm on the Lawn summer school at Prior Park Collegewill be Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
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