2024
HAPPY NEW YEAR! - We kicked the year off in style in Nunhead, Leyton, and Teddington with our Happy New Year drama camp. 4 days of fun, games, journeying around the world to find out how everyone likes to celebrate on 31 Dec, and prepping for our very own New Year's party for family and friends on the Friday. We reeled, we balloon dropped, we created fireworks, gifted ourselves envelopes full of promises, sang Auld Lang Syne, spun yarns, and told great jokes!
Feb half term - MACBETH
A week exploring one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary plays. Kings, queens, noblemen, honour, bravery, friendship, ambition, envy, betrayal, dreams, witches, potions...... it's got it all.
We learnt about Shakespeare and his age, the characters and story of Macbeth, witches and witchcraft - and ended the week performing Infinite Jest's adaptation.
For me, IJ is proper creativity: it’s playful, it’s experimental, it’s anarchic. It encourages kids to try new things in an environment where The Worst Things That Could Happen (looking a bit silly or failing) not only isn’t a big deal, it’s shown how it’s a totally normal part of the creative process. I don’t know if there are many places for kids (or adults tbh) that allow for that. The shows are pure joy, the madder the better.
Feedback from our Macbeth camp
Easter holidays - WHODUNNIT
This was massive fun!! Our "Shine Bright Like a Diamond" Whodunnit involved a host of characters - Mrs Periwinkle and her rare plumed parrot, Percy the pigeon, PC Pickles, the friendliest PC on the beat, Red Herring - Mrs Periwinkle's grumpy neighbour, Sue Keeper - head of exotic animals at London Zoo, Bianca Castafiore - aka the Milanese Nightingale - world-renowned opera singer whose voice can shatter glass at a 100 paces, and of course the Infinite Jest newshound, Jester Crackers, and his colleagues in the news room - weather man, Windy Bottom, sports reporter, Trusty Balls, bird expert, Phoenix Rising, and head of legal affairs, Brief Casey.....
May half term - BUDDING GARDENERS
Three days of getting our fingers green, our imaginations verdant, and our creativity blooming!
Summer - week 1 OLYMPIANS - an Infinite Jest skills week where we invited VIP professionals to teach us their amazing skill.
We had workshops in mime, stage combat, stand up comedy, performance poetry, cartoon drawing, and West End song & dance. What a week!!
Summer - week 2 - SUMMER CELEBRATION - an Infinite Jest party planning week where we created the Summer party to end all Summer parties, inspired by Summer celebrations the world over
October half term - THE BODY - an hysterical adventure on, in, and around the human body ending with an all singing, all dancing show with puppetry, poo, and plenty of laughs.
