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Halloween Merch Fun!

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On Saturday we visited Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield and while we were there we tried out some of the products from the Rough Magic Theatre merch Shop. Miranda is showing off how you can combine our kids premium t-shirts with other costume items for a fun Halloween outfit. Don’t forget we now have the “Happy Halloween” design too. There’s 20% off everything for the next 4 days so why not stock up now?

We also tried out the water bottle and thermal mug for our picnic, and I can confirm that the mug keeps hot drinks hot for a long time. It isn’t obvious in the pictures in the shop, but both of these items are actually made out of metal and are really good quality. The lid on the thermal mug allows you to open and close the hole that you drink through as well!

“Beware the Jabberwock my son!” Kids Premium t-shirt in Dark Pink & Red

“Beware the Jabberwock my son!” Water bottle with straw in Silver

“Beware the Jabberwock my son!” Thermal mug with handle

Spreadshirt Gift Box
Gift card with stickers to dress up the figure on the front
Personalised “Tempest” tote bag with a quotation by Caliban from the original Shakespearian text.

As a birthday present for my brother Peter who originally played both Caliban and Ferdinand in Rough Magic Theatre’s first production “The Tempest” I personalised this black “Tempest” tote bag with a quotation by Caliban from the original Shakespearian text. You can personalise the products in my Spreadshirt shop by pressing the pencil icon. You can add your own text in different fonts, sizes, colours and positions. You could put someone’s name on or add any other message/text that you like. This personalisation option is available on all of the different products in the shop.

If it is a gift for someone you can choose an option for the product to be gift-wrapped. It then comes in a cardboard box like with this colourful geometric design. If you ask for a gift card the middle photo shows what the card looks like (it comes with these cool “dress up the person” stickers). You can include a message of your choice inside the card too!

I have also updated our “Halloween Events” page so please take a look 🙂 we are available for bookings for shows and workshops. CLICK HERE to contact me.

Showings of “Seven Songs of Love” in Morecambe and Thirsk

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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We had a great time performing our new show at More Music in Morecambe at their Fun Palaces event.

Sadly the room we were performing in was a little on the small side at Morecambe and they had to turn some people away!

Everyone who attended really loved it and we had loads of positive feedback from adults and children who attended. There was also a very enthusiastic and creative shadow puppetry workshop after the performance.

The children experimented with lots of different techniques with gels, textures and puppets on our OHP. Some children also combined body shadows with the puppets and tried out multiple light sources to create different effects.

There was also a photographer (Nick Hellier) there to document the Fun Palaces event so we were lucky enough to get lots of great photos of the show, (see below):

Workshop Photos:

We also enjoyed travelling to Thirsk and performing in the Rural Arts Scratch Evening at The Old Courthouse venue there. This was a bigger space than the room at Morecambe and there was plenty of room for everybody and we got some very useful feedback on the audience age, length and storytelling in the show that will help us when we extend the show to its full length.

We have also created a Rural Touring page for the show on our website which has all the tech specs. floor plan, photos, video etc. for anyone wishing to book the show for 2023. CLICK HERE to view 🙂