Our Project - Introduction

This term I am part of the Ashcroft community project. A group of musical theatre , dance , theatre and CAP are working together on a musical that we will perform to 2000 children from year 4 to 6 , within a couple of days of shows. The show has been written and choreographed for this particular project to directly target our young audience of school children. The main message of the show is to show the importance that stories and imagination and play has in the world. It also highlights the dangers of technology killing this imagination and fun and really communicates to the children that reading stories and bringing them to life is much more important than going on an ipad or phone.

It would be great if we were able to communicate a strong message to the 2000 children yet in a way that we are talking to them and not down to them , even though we are not that far from there age it is really difficult to put our selves in their shoes again as when you are that young you feel very old and responsible yet you still need to be communicated in a way which is clear. In this day technology has become a scary with its rise and control on children, many kids are not playing with other children as much and actually damaging their social skills due to only being used to screen interaction. Imagination is also stagnated and kids no longer have to think up their own worlds as they have already been programmed. I personally remember loving making up my own worlds with my friends and playing different characters and being creative. Therefor to open the younger generations eyes to this in a fun un patronising way would be a very rewarding experience for myself.