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Hansel & Gretel – Musical antics & the Witch takes her place….

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On Wednesday we toddled over to the house of my very good musician friend, together with a bag full of peculiar noise making equipment and a guitar.  As it turned out there were plenty already there, but at least we were amused by funny birdy noises squeaking out at every bump in the road.

We recorded all of the stuff we wanted into the computer and now all we have to do is edit it and combine the tracks in various exciting ways.

Previous to this we have rehearsed with my toy theatre mock up and identified various puppets and sets that will need to be adapted for the real thing, (which is what it is for).

We have also, after the advice of the good people who voted on the poll on this blog inserted the word “witch” into the script.  I’m not ashamed to say there is some insane cackling involved too.

We also recorded a script learning tape for ourselves and I have worked out that Tim is doing 3 separate voices and I am doing 4.

I have also purchased an A2 cartridge paper pad and will be starting painting A.S.A.P.  I have delegated “slide” making to Tim, but I don’t know if he realises what he’s let himself in for.

I think we may have to simplify our lighting ideas, (boohoohoo!), but we’ll just have to wait and see how much time we have.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, please look at our “Wefund” page.  As you can see we now have a roll of honour for people who have pledged, but there other exciting benefits, so do have a look.  Like I said before, you don’t have to give money, you can just share this with your friends.  But, do feel free to do both if you wish!

I shall update you again as soon as I have actually got more stuff done!

New Liquorice House Mock Up Scene

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Sweet Old Lady?

A Sweet Old Lady?

At last I have revealed some of the images for the forthcoming Hansel & Gretel Toy Theatre show.

The fact is, I wouldn’t have bothered to do such a high quality mock-up if it were not for an interesting development. The Vischmarkt Papierentheater Festival is unpaid, and for this reason I have been attempting to attract sponsorship from Liquorice manufacturers. I have thus far been unsuccessful and time is getting short for attracting funders.

I have in fact booked our ferry tickets and our travel insurance now, and in order to at least manage to recoup these costs, we are doing something called “Wefund”. As I understand it, this basically allows anyone who’s interested to contribute to our project within a set time limit and hopefully raise a specified amount of money.

To attract interest in our project, however, you need to make a promotional video. With this in mind, I thought I’d better get some stuff together that was pretty to look at, as well as functional.

For those who are thinking “Wot no real liquorice?” fear not. There will be real liquorice on the scenery of the finished full size version.

I have completed roughly a third of my unpretty mock up puppets and I now have one pretty backdrop and a pretty puppet I can use with them as well. Tomorrow, I am definitely going to finish all of the mock up puppets and sets, no excuses.

I am deligating the video making to Tim, who is doing that tomorrow. I’m afraid I shall be expected to show my face on it at some point, (not looking forward to that!). So, watch this space for more on that soon.

Doubtless you’ll all be delighted to hear that the script is now completely finished. I have also given my music wish-list to a very good musician friend of mine so I can get on with everything else I have to do. All very exciting!

Till you get to see our marvellous video, here is a “trailer” for the Vischmarkt Festival, that someone else has made 🙂