Group School Bookings
#2024 Mainstage Productions
Rachel Burke's
Fancy Long Legs
12 - 22 Sep 2024
Fancy Long Legs is a brand-new glittery and vibrant musical adventure for children, based on a new picture book by Brisbane’s international tinsel and craft icon, Rachel Burke.
This uplifting story takes a wholesome and relatable look at neurodivergence, offering a playful and glitter-covered adventure of acceptance, staying true to yourself and finding friends who love you and celebrate your differences.
Co-presented with Brisbane Festival and The Little Red Company.
Recommended for ages 3 – 100+ years. Contains theatrical lighting end effects, haze, and music. All shows are relaxed performances.
Early Years Framework:
This production, the text and the associated activities can connect with all five of the outcomes of the EYLF:
- Children have a strong sense of identity
- Children are connected with and contribute to their world
- Children have a strong sense of wellbeing
- Children are confident and involved learners
- Children are effective communicators
Australian Curriculum:
Explicit links can be made to the AC Learning Area - The Arts, with a focus on students being Creative and Expressive Learners as both artist and audience.
Specific connections can be made to the subjects DRAMA and VISUAL ART across the four interrelated strands of Exploring and Responding, Developing Practices and Skills, Creating and Making, and Presenting and Performing through the Viewpoint of the Personal and Imaginative.
Across the Curriculum from Foundation to Year 3, multiple opportunities exist to meet the associated subject achievement standards.
Further scope exists for fostering the General Capabilities, especially Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability and Ethical Understanding as well as Cross-Curriculum Priorities, with specific opportunities to link to English and Science.
Yoga Play
7 - 23 Nov 2024
Yoga Play is a sharp comedy that interrogates what it takes to find your authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment.
Yoga Play addresses cultural appropriation and explores the unusual phenomenon of identity – how one can belong somewhere they least expect yet feel estranged in places where they ought to belong.
Co-presented with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta.
Recommended for audiences aged 15+. Contains coarse language and adult themes.
Australian Curriculum - Drama:
- Evaluate how the elements of drama, forms and performance styles in devised and scripted drama convey meaning and aesthetic effect.
- Refine and extend student understanding and use of role, character, relationships and situation.
General Drama:
Unit 1: Share. How does drama promote shared understandings of the human experience?
Unit 3: Challenge. How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?
- Analyse how dramatic languages are used to create dramatic action and meaning.
- Interpret purpose, context and text to communicate dramatic meaning.
- Evaluate and justify the use of dramatic languages to communicate dramatic meaning.
