Assitej Awards for people from UK - Lifetime Achievement Award for Vicky Ireland & Emerging Scholars Award for Dr. Kitty Morley

Vicky Ireland was a member of the first Theatre- in-Education team at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and started the charity Action for Children’s Arts in 1989, and she co-founded the International Inclusive Arts Network with Daryl Beeton in 2011. Dr. Katherine Morley is an associate researcher at the University of Manchester, UK and researcher in residence at The Egg, Royal Theatre Bath. Katherine recently contributed to Mapping Research: A map on the aesthetics of performing arts for early years.

Bounced - Magnet Theatre

 

Entendemos La Historie, Esta es La Revolución - Understand History, This is the Revolution

 

A word about Cuba the country... So much complexity around the economy, the government currency rates, the pesos for dollars on the streets... power cuts... some notes here to help find a way through.

Why does the US have Guantanamo?  It was 100 yr lease for 1902 when the US helped to fight the Spanish.

My airbnb host told his story of the revolution. 1953 and Castro's fight against Batista and subsequent capture and trial where he defended himself...'History will observe me.' His exile.

His return in 1956 in a boat with just 82 men. And his fight from the East to the West of the island between 1956 to 1959.

Until December 1958 when Batista flees to the Dominican Republic with 300 million dollars. 

The Bay of Pigs 16th-19th April 1961.  And cuban missile crisis in 1963, when Castro was unhappy that Kruschev did a deal with Kennedy. 

He told me about the The film I am Cuba. It is a proud history. However, it now seems it may be in the way of the best interests of the people, when some struggle receive basic supplies. 

Bedtime - Drak Theatre

 

Batu - Artefactos Bascos

 

Baracca Theatre

 

To Hell with Paradise - Batida Theatre, Denmark

The show takes place outside, under a metal roof, in case of rain. Bated are experienced at playing in Cuba & they have brought their own generator in case of power cuts. 

The Festival goers arrive on a bus & are greeted with much excitement by the group of local children. However once the actors descend from their bus, the excitement doubles and the show begins.  The serpent enters, and there is Adam and Juliet and an apple.

Each scene has captions in Spanish and is separated by a musical number from a Rock Band. The mix of Shakespeare and Genesis temptation story unfolds. There is a moment of death & tragedy when Juliet's pregnancy is discovered. 

However the magic of theatre steps in via the Serpent, who explains that Juliet's pregnant stomach is 'only a balloon'. And the star-crossed lovers are given a ticket to Freedom