Hansel and Gretel shows and art installation

We've had a brilliant time in Peterborough with Hansel and Gretel playing at the Key Theatre this February half term. Here are some of the audience responses to the show: Alongside the production, we have been working in collaboration with Metal, Vivacity and artist Robyn Woolston to create an artwork in response to the show. Robyn has worked in 3 local Primary schools (The Beeches, Hampton Vale and St Thomas More) to help generate the material, and ran craft workshops over each performance day at the Key Theatre. The result was a beautiful installation picking up key words and phrases from the show, and bringing the forest into the Key Theatre foyer:


 


Thanks so much to the Key Theatre, Vivacity and Metal and the audiences in Peterborough for making this a really special week!

Cat Moore - UK Producer

Hansel and Gretel in Peterborough

We have been working on projects in Peterborough for many years now in collaboration with Vivacity. This has included our site specific show Tales from the Middle of Town co-produced with Eastern Angles which transformed a former Waterstone's store in Queensgate shopping centre and was a walkabout show using young people as our co-creators,with the material generated through storytelling workshops in 12 Primary schools.

 

 We are really pleased to be back in the City this week with family show Hansel and Gretel which performed to family audiences at The Junction (Cambridge)in 2011 and has just returned from a seven week sell-out run at the Tobacco Factory Theatre (Bristol). This is the first time we have played the show outside of a christmas season, and we opened yesterday at the Key Theatre to very excitable half-term audiences.

 We have four more performances to take place and had some great responses from audiences so far:

"a wonderful, funny show, that I would have been very sorry to miss" Juliet Lee Catch it while you can! Cat Moore, Producer

Hunger Rehearsals in Denmark

I have been in Haderslev in Southern Jutland working with Theatre Møllen on a new adaptation of Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger - (Sult in Danish....)

I am here with NIE regulars Robert Orr and Lenka Rozenalova and am working with two actors from Møllen and one guest performer who is Swedish.








We are having a great time and a real struggle with the 5 languages in the room. We have spent the last weeks hammering out a rough script using the novel on Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech and English. And playing lots of music. And volleyball.




We have short break now and then are back for more rehearsals at the end of next week.

Posted by Alex Byrne, Co-artistic Director. NIE.

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Location:Sydhavnsvej,Haderslev,Denmark