Puppet Hand
1st-2nd July 2012
We have got off to a good start with developing The Night of the Big Wind! Will & I have been shopping for some new chemicals and reading a few books to get fresh ideas on how to build our puppet, Finn. The company has been reading The Big Wind by Peter Carr for inspiration and research into the affect the storm had on 1839 Ireland, especially on the Ards Peninsula in the North. This is a brilliant book with really interesting detail, so we're on the right track!
We've also bought an Ulster-Scots dictionary called The Hamley Tongue by James Fenton- I speak Ulster-Scots, so I'm trying to get the English members of the company to learn a new dialect as some of our songs will be sung in Ulster-Scots. It shall be interesting!
A think sae! A think sae, sowl! (Exactly)
Carly McConnell (Joint Artistic-Director)
We have got off to a good start with developing The Night of the Big Wind! Will & I have been shopping for some new chemicals and reading a few books to get fresh ideas on how to build our puppet, Finn. The company has been reading The Big Wind by Peter Carr for inspiration and research into the affect the storm had on 1839 Ireland, especially on the Ards Peninsula in the North. This is a brilliant book with really interesting detail, so we're on the right track!
We've also bought an Ulster-Scots dictionary called The Hamley Tongue by James Fenton- I speak Ulster-Scots, so I'm trying to get the English members of the company to learn a new dialect as some of our songs will be sung in Ulster-Scots. It shall be interesting!
A think sae! A think sae, sowl! (Exactly)
Carly McConnell (Joint Artistic-Director)
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