3000 chairs – collaborations between Author, Directors, Illustrator, Performers
Published on 22.06.17
The last couple of weeks have been busy with preparing for the 3000 chairs performances taking place at the Hay Festival on 28th May and 31st May. Both performances sold out within 6 days! The collaboration between Artistic Director – Claire Coache and Performing Arts Course Leader Gillian Hipp, Writer – Nicola Davies, 3rd year Set
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The last couple of weeks have been busy with preparing for the 3000 chairs performances taking place at the Hay Festival on 28th May and 31st May. Both performances sold out within 6 days!
The collaboration between Artistic Director – Claire Coache and Performing Arts Course Leader Gillian Hipp, Writer – Nicola Davies, 3rd year Set Designer and Illustration student – Andrew Graham, Costume Designer – Meg Swancott and the Performing Arts students – Annie Grainger, Tommy Ryan, Andy Sims, Molly Glover and Bethan Parry has been a journey of creativity, making something out of nothing and collaboration.
Movement material was developed using chairs and then big cardboard boxed and overlaid with script and illustrations.
This was followed by the overlay of musical accompaniment.
Andrew Graham also created an animation video, with my 12 year-old Ada-Lana voicing over:
Performances at the Hay Festival in the Cube:
