Hopscotch Hypnosis
6.30pm, Friday 1 July 2016
12.30pm, Saturday 2 July 2016
Equinox Youth Theatre, one of Half Moon’s inclusive groups for young people aged 8-11, focused on the stories of belonging that the company has told through productions and participatory projects.
They used as their stimulus:
Hamlet (1979)
Kola Pata Bhut/The Hopscotch Ghost (1983)
Eclipse: A Tale for Winter (1999)
Ocean of Stories (2000)
Members of Equinox delved into their four stimulus productions and found themselves traversing celestial plains, playing hopscotch with ghosts and losing their way in the dark. Will their ties to each other and to the theatre be strong enough to pull them back into the light? They have excelled at bringing an abundance of ideas and narrative to their devised piece. They have transferred the story to movement, transformed feelings into words and changed the past into the present. Follow them as they separate and congregate in their own phase of the moon.
Youth Theatre members:
Alek, Alina, Anna, Aurora, Austus, Ava A, Ava R, Davina, Douglas, Elis, Freya, Gabriel, Ilyas, Inesse, Kajus, Keziah, Kody, Leela, Lily, Louis, Maelyn, Max, Nicole, Pablo, Roman, Saraiya, Zainab
Lead Tutor: Madeleine Graham
Support Tutor: David Gilbert
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Placement: Fani Vlanou
Composer: James Grant
Designer: Liz Atkin
Lighting Designers: Phil Clarke and Toni Tsaera
Equinox Youth Theatre devised their own show inspired by some of the iconic productions from across the 44-year history of Half Moon Theatre.
Hopscotch Hypnosis was performed as part of the Stages of Half Moon Festival on 1-2 July 2016.
A short video about the Stages of Half Moon Festival, featuring extracts from our four Youth Theatre productions, interviews with some of the young people and images of our exhibition.
Composed by James Grant.