For Years 1 - 8
BOTTOM'S TALE
Excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Prepare to be enchanted as our hapless hero, Nick Bottom, encounters a magical world inhabited by fairies and sprites. Robin Goodfellow (aka Puck) mistakenly turns Nick into a donkey, Nick falls in love with Titania-Queen of the Fairies, and Oberon-the King of the Fairies, is not very pleased!

Up to six of your students will participate in the performance as fairies and sprites, and get to perform alongside Aranui Theatre Company actors. However, it will take all of the audience’s combined power of magic to untangle this mixed-up magical mayhem before Robin “can make amends” and Nick Bottom can wonder if it has all been A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Duration: approximately 45 minutes including Q&A session.

Curriculum links: Drama PK, DI, CI, UC.

Cost: $3 per pupil ($6 max. per family), parents and teachers are free.

For Years 9 - 13
Mr & Mrs The Scottish Play
A Shakespearean parody adapted by Robert Gilbert

Whatever you do, NEVER mention the title of the Scottish play—else terrible luck might befall thee. Therefore, Mr and Mrs The Scottish Play must go about their grisly deeds without so much as uttering their own name. Egged on by three weird sisters, Mr The Scottish Play is destined to become the King of all the Scots and Mrs The Scottish Play his bloody queen! However, Mrs The Scottish Play has her ‘Scottishness’ severely questioned and by play’s end the stage is liberally littered with corpses.

Duration: approximately 50 minutes including Q&A session.

Curriculum links: Drama DI, CI, UC.

Cost: $3 per pupil ($6 max. per family), parents and teachers are free.

For Years 9 - 13
Fairytale Survivor - Theatre Workshop

Fairytale Survivor is a fun theatre workshop for up to 60 students (three groups of 20). Our actors will have your students ‘performance-ready’ in one hour with a riotous semi-improvised play where the audience votes which characters stay and which characters go. Great for senior drama students and an excellent resource for drama teachers. Fairytale Survivor is already proving to be a popular theatre workshop experience. Available on request, and where time allows.

Duration: One hour

Curriculum links: Drama PK, DI, CI, UC.

Cost: $5 per pupil - maximum 60 (up to three groups of 20)