ODTC Blog July 2009

ODTC Blog July 2009

ODTC Blog July 2009

Garden Party
ODTC are heading to Edinburgh at the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen to attend the annual garden party at Holyrood Palace. Two members of staff and four members will travel down on 30th June and return again on 1st July.

Hima Sundari
As part of Moray College’s Day of Diversity the company performed “Hima Sundari” which is based on the story of Snow White. The performance used the style of the Kathakali Company to tell the story through visual and musical effects. As always the Technical group provided the lighting and sound support.

Interactive Theatre Programme
A day of Equalities training for Aberdeenshire Council led to the company performing their set pieces on Race, Disability and Gender during the course of the training day. With a positive feedback from councillors and officials alike it is hoped that more work will be forthcoming.

Multi Arts Group
Currently working on art based projects including designing stain glass windows and learning Makaton ( a sign based language for people with learning difficulties) The company have just received additional funding from the Scottish Community Foundation Awards and along with the Media Group will be creating a Multi Media Exhibition talking about themselves and their lives. ( “Talking Heads” is the working title )

Performance Group
Working on a series of short drama pieces which include “The Conductor” and “Whales Play”. It is intended to film these pieces for uploading to YOU TUBE !

Technical Group
Our Technicians continue to support our Social Awareness Programme with lighting and sound support and have just completed more SVQ Level 2 Lighting modules and are awaiting certificates.

Media Group
This group has just finished creating 30sec. adverts on their chosen subjects using a variety of media techniques and will burn them to DVD. Also have been looking at YOU TUBE as a means of promoting company and have uploaded a short Promo Reel to the site. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6H4NdFcSuA )

Video/ Drama Outreach Group
We have just finished working with The Moray Council Quest Project in assisting and developing a DVD to celebrate the 10 years they have been together.

Other Projects
We continue to to develop our interactive issue based theatre work across Scotland. In the past year we have performed our Domestic Abuse piece, “Scatterbrain”, for NHS Grampian Training Sessions, RAF Kinloss, Women and Children Forum Renfrewshire,International Women’s Day Celebrations, Paisley and The Moray Council.
We have just recently performed a piece for Hanover (Scotland) Housing on elderly abuse.
We also continue to work with People First, Fraserburgh on their Self Advocacy Training project


The Moray Council’s Social Responsibility Awareness Programme
We have been working for the second year with Moray Council delivering a series of interactive theatre pieces as part of their Social Awareness Programme. Last years programme was well received,Additional areas have been explored for this year’s programme,
This programme so far has involved training sessions using interactive theatre based on the following subjects:

• Energy Awareness,
• Health Improvement,
• Equal Opportunities,
• Disability Discrimination,
• Racial Awareness,
• Domestic Abuse
• Mental Health
• Child Protection.

The above pieces are available for training and conferences,
We also devise pieces to suit the needs of your organisation. Please contact us for further information.

Actors and Visual Artist Wanted

Actors are required to play a boy and a girl of age 18 and 15 years old for a forthcoming series of presentations within our Social Awareness programme during 2009. The ability to “hot seat” in a Q & A session after the performances would be an advantage.

A visual artist is required to work alongside media staff to create an exhibition Talking Heads(working title) using a combination of visual art and multi media input to tell their own stories.

Further details and CV to Tina McGeever Artistic Director.

Kathakali 2008 Tour

Our tour in collaboration with the Kela Chethena Kathakali Company, a classical dance drama from Kerala, South West India proved to be an outstanding success
Our performers working alongside professional performers, using our own unique style, recreated the Kathakali Story - Kiratham, (The Hunters Story). We used a combination of Makaton, Mudras, Music and imagination to tell the story to the audience.The performances in the true village style of Kerala took the audience on a journey through to the main performance of Kathakali.

“Your performances are stunning, very professionally presented and delighted the audiences. I was amazed just
how similar your interpretation of Kiratham was to the Kathakali version, yet you had never seen it ! “
Kalamandalam Barbara Vijayakumar Kathakali Co Director

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Support

Supporting Organisations

We currently support organisations by providing technical back up at conferences and events. We also use an interactive theatre performance to support training conferences and awareness raising events.

Placements : ongoing
We offer placements in all aspects of our work to young people in education, students, volunteers and people needing support to get back to work.

Visits: ongoing
As well as our main programme we regularly offer members and other interested individuals visits to the theatre and other appropriate events.

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