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BOGUS for 2010
phone 01290 578368 for more details
ABOUT BOGUS CALLERS
A performance with an element of forum theatre.
Small World methods include mask making, touring set design and an adapted forum theatre process.
Participatory opportunities exist for audience members to help "develop" the audience as a whole
Devised using mask as a metaphor for the suspect characters while trustworthy characters appear unmasked
a suspect pair of fake builders call at Molly's doors
The bogus water official tries to dupe Molly - The heartless fake charity workers steals her bag
Wait until he audience get involved
A member of the audience takes the role of a neighbor with good advice or they step into her role and try to outwit the bogus callers who skillfully improvise new ways around the new intervention or are defeated by a sharp thinking "spectactor" (a spectator is someone who takes the role of a character who seeks to make a better outcome)
More venues in the Welsh valleys to come
Set requirements: 3.5 Meters deep 2.6 meters high and 3.5 meters wide. As this is a forum theatre process so access to the performance area is needed by audience members so they can take part in the action take on a role and improve the scenario. For large audiences a PA can be provided.
The
antique dealer calls . It's more than antiques he's after A
phony antique dealer . This Character was replaced by a phony water company official with a fake I. D. for the 2008 tour of the Valleys. "Watch
your bag Molly" Audience
of 300 attend the show at Eastern Leisure Centre Cardiff A
performance was arranged with the South Wales Police and and Cardiff
Trading Standards Office 130 older people attended as well as many community
Safety officers from the South wales Police Force and trading standards officers.
An updated version of Bogus was performed on the 20th july 2005 at the Cardiff
University Students Union Building. Concerns about different types of Builders
Cons and extortion were written into the play and the antique dealer was replaced
with a bogus Welsh Water official. The
project was well received and the event went very well Previous
performances 2003 Audiences
of the third age were present as the show was performed within a song and dance
review with a 2nd World War theme at the Western Leisure Centre in Ely Cardiff
and a variety show in Eastern Leisure Centre Llanrymny Cardiff Performers
of the first and second age engaged with the third age. Small World Theatre, Canolfan Byd Bychan, Bath House Road, Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales, SA43 1JY Tel:
01239 615952 ..............Fax
:01239 615835 e
mail info@smallworld.org.uk
2005& 2004 below
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