Choosing our production

We all were given homework to consider what show we could perform for the primary school children. I thought of The Twits by Roald Dahl, as we could consider many children's theatrical ideas such as acting as animals, aspects of comedy and tragedy, and a happy ending to the show.

One of the ideas was to illustrate the narrative of Finding Nemo on stage. This itself will be a great challenge, with it being a famous and beloved storyline. However it gives us the opportunity to use different techniques in theatre. We could use puppetry and physical theatre to illustrate the characters and the actions of the deep blue sea itself. Audience interaction is another big thing we wanted to include, and the opening would be a good place to start that interaction, to engage the audience and get them excited for the production.

However, after much deliberation, we constructed an opening to Three Little Pigs which then led to us believing that we could create a full production of this that would be engaging and enjoyable. We could implement all the ideas we had for Finding Nemo, with puppetry and physical theatre, but also include new ideas, such as songs and alternative narrative strands.