Queens Park Theatre Schools Program 2018

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Welcome to QPT | School Information Page

DEAREST TEACHERS

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Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Lark Ascending

Welcome to Queens Park Theatre School Shows booklet for 2018.

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Co3 together with The Farm - FrankEnstein

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Absolutely Flawless - A Clown’s Odyssey

Imaginations will reach new heights with the amazing and broad range of theatre, music and dance on offer throughout the year. We are giving you the opportunity to secure your school group bookings at an exclusive school price before these shows go on sale to the general public! To make a school booking simply email Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

10 Roald Dahl - George’s Marvellous Medicine 12 Jackie French - Josephine wants to Dance 13 A Prudent Man 14 The Listies | Ickypedia

Happy creative planning for the new school year!

FROM THE QPT TEAM

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What specials do you offer to school groups?

School groups receive one FREE teachers ticket for every 15 students tickets purchased. Plus all school ticketing is at a lower competitive price.

Are there teachers’ resources and workshops available for shows?

Teachers’ resource kits and workshops are available at no charge for many of the shows in the 2018 School Shows program. We have indicated on each show listing if resource kits and workshops are available. These kits and workshops are put together by the production company’s creative/marketing team and are extremely useful as they help link content of the performance to the school curriculum and often include pre and post show activities.

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WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2018 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

THE LARK ASCENDING The fun and interactive concert for secondary students provides tools to understand and appreciate music.

Specially created for schools, these vibrant performances introduce students to musical concepts by inviting them to explore and discover their own responses to the music.

Starring ACO Collective’s Artistic Director, Pekka Kuusisto, the Orchestra will play the poignantly brilliant masterpiece, The Lark Ascending. Also in the program are two other English works: Henry Purcell’s Fantasia upon One Note, containing a middle voice that plays literally one note throughout, and Benjamin Britten’s Second String Quartet which was written to commemorate 250 years since Purcell’s death.

To complement these performances, the ACO offers curriculum aligned resources including worksheets to be completed in class, and videos of the musicians discussing the music and specific listening points for students to focus on, these resources will become available shortly.

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TIME:

11am

AGES:

13+

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

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SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 CO3 TOGETHER WITH THE FARM

FrankEnstein Frank could be a genius. Just one more ‘i’ and he’d be an Einstein! Frank’s a lonely guy who wants to make his imaginary friends real. Harnessing electricity from a storm he creates his world from nothing but his imagination and the garbage in his lab.

Battling a physical impairment, Frank creates monsters to fulfill his desire to be normal and to be accepted by others.

Can he control what he creates? And who is the real monster anyway?

Frank Enstein is a retelling of the classic tale for children and adults – magical dance-theatre illuminating a path to selfacceptance.

The Farm’s wicked sense of humour together with the extreme physicality of Co3 Australia’s dancers combines magic and dance to create a show for the child in all of us.

This performance comes with teacher’s resources and workshops.

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TIME:

7.30pm

AGES:

8+

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

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SATURDAY 26 MAY 2018 QPT PRESENTS

ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESS

A CLOWN’S ODYSSEY An award winning autobiographical solo storytelling performance that mesmerises and packs an emotional punch! ‘Absolutely’ is a giant-hearted, laugh out-loud story of how an extreme introvert overcomes awkwardness to become a performer in Cirque du Soleil.

Playful, touching and true! It journeys from loss, to hope, to finding a place to belong. From quirky loner, to teaching in regional WA, to accidentally discovering the joy of acting…

The die is cast.

Having sold out seasons at Fringe World, winning the WA Theatre Award (2015) and a highly acclaimed tour of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2014) ‘Absolutely’ is a must see performance!

This performance comes with one free creative writing high school student workshop at the City Library during the Big Sky Readers & Writers Festival 2018.

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TIME:

7.30pm

AGES:

16+

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

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THURSDAY 19 JULY 2018 shake & stir theatre co PRESENTS

Roald Dahl

GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE What starts as just another boring day for George quickly turns into a marvellous experiment of epic proportions!

Cleverly adapted from the much-loved book by Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine bounds off the page in a spectacular live show for the whole family. On a good day, George can’t stand his Grandma. She complains all the time, she’s mean and she smells funny. On this particular day, Grandma is much more annoying than usual and George has had enough. “George – make me a cup of tea! George – rub my feet! George – stop growing!” Ugh. Wanting to put an end to her constant nagging, George creates a special medicine, greater than any medicine in the history of the world. What he doesn’t expect is that this medicine may actually work – just not in the way he thinks...

The award-winning team behind the multi-Helpmann Award nominated Australian production of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts brings you this brand-new stage adaptation from the wacky mind of the World’s No. 1 Storyteller. Direct from a sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House, George’s Marvellous Medicine is packed to the rafters with mischief, music, magic and giant laughs. Just remember – do not try this at home!

Adapted for the stage by shake & stir theatre co – who brought Animal Farm & Dracula to QPT – this 55 minutes performance comes with teachers’ resources and workshops.

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TIME:

10.30am

AGES:

All Ages

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

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FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018

FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2018

QPT PRESENTS

QPT PRESENTS

Jackie French

A PRUDENT MAN

JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE A story about dreams, believing in yourself ... and a dancing kangaroo.

Josephine is a kangaroo – who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don’t dance, they hop – but Josephine continues to point her toes, and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully Josephine learns that there is another way to dance – ballet. As the ballet company prepares to perform, Josephine sneaks into town to peer through the window as the dancers rehearse, watching for hours and hours as they perfect their routine. Then Josephine goes home and practices all night, all alone, until she knows the dance by heart. She spun, she swirled and pirouetted dreams… and at the end she always curtsied. She desperately wanted to dance like the ballerinas in pink tutus and silk ballet shoes!

Perfect for young audiences from 4 to 9 years and their families, brought to you by the team that created the award-winning Pete the Sheep, this hilarious new work

by Monkey Baa brings to life a tale about a bush Kangaroo you’ll never forget!

A conservative politician, a leader, a man in a snappy suit, an athlete in a bad tracksuit – meet A Prudent Man. A well-groomed, confident-looking man enters the room and sits on a comfortable and expensive-looking leather chair. A bright light shines on him. There’s water and a glass on the table, but that’s all. Perhaps this is an investigation. What has he done wrong?

Written and directed by Katy Warner, A Prudent Man is a darkly comedic political thriller exploring what it means to be right... in more ways than one. In a tour-deforce solo performance, Lyall Brooks embodies all the slogans, mannerisms and headlines of the word’s conservative politicians in a way that is so true to life it is unsettling. What makes the Trumps, the Abbotts and the Hansons of this world tick?

What would happen if their world started to shift ever so slightly?

This performance comes with a 3 hour Monologue Masterclass that is suitable for ATAR Drama and English students – 30 students max

This performance comes with teachers’ resources and teaching artists workshops.

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Powerful and thought-provoking.

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

TIME:

11am

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7.30pm

AGES:

4+

AGES:

16+

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

TICKETS:

$15 per student Buy 15 tickets & receive 1 FREE teacher’s ticket

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

BOOKINGS:

Valli Papini at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au

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MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 2018 TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2018 PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPETITION

THE LISTIES ICKYPEDIA Competition time! This performance is based on The Listies book Ickypedia, a book filled with completely made up words and their meaning. We encourage your students to make up their own word and its meaning to go in the running to win a family pass to this extremely funny family show!

Should any of your class want to participate in this competition all you have to do is contact Valli at vallip@cgg.wa.gov.au and we will email you all the relevant information. All entries will be displayed in the QPT lower foyer during the performance dates.

Need some inspiration? Head to this link to some of the Listies videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSyHnF4fSS5ZZcK8C74_FTTFxy2twAqgr

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TIME:

Monday 1 October at 6pm Tuesday 2 October at 11am

AGES:

4+

TICKETS:

$25 Adult $18 Child $70 Family 2 + 2

BOOKINGS:

Online – www.queensparktheatre.com.au In Person at the Civic Centre, Geraldton Visitor Centre or Geraldton Regional Library or by phone on 9956 6662.

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