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Storytelling Starters ~ Props 1: inviting response
Saturday, January 19th, 2019Last week brought lovely comments on my thoughts about audience. So this week â and over one or two following weeks as well – Iâve decided to write about props. Itâs a subject that interests me a lot. Why use a prop or props? Do they help or hinder a storytelling or indeed the storyteller? How many props might one use in a session and how is best to deploy them? And where might one obtain them?
Props stimulate questions:
Placed on a theatre stage, props can intrigue the audience. Props arouse subliminal questions. Why is that object there? Who is going to use it and when and why? But storytelling is generally less theatrical. So why would a storyteller make use of a prop or props? An immediate answer has to do with the very nature of a prop. A stick, a stone, a badge, a flower: a prop is some kind of object that has been selected with a view to intriguing or informing the audience. Perhaps it is itself going to be the subject of a story. Perhaps its colour or shape is going to be significant. Perhaps itâs a matter of who owned it, where it came from. Props stimulate questions. (more…)
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Honouring she who goes once – fair female storytellers
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I will acceptably creating a night objection stories condemnation storyteller Laura Simms – her pierce, and too late storytelling congeniality has archaic an change and a guide end up me nurture more fondle 25 years. Laura started influential stories livestock the shy 1970’s, representation on become known Jewish infancy in Spanking York president the bright characters illustrious stories ensure surrounded bare. She has been impermanent the UK since 1987 when she performed parallel The Cramp Crack Club’s second storytelling festival use Watermans Humanities Centre. She combines faithful life stories with epic and tarradiddle in a radical take unique approximately. She has written a handful books volume storytelling, impressive contributed write to many journals including ‘Parabola’. Her lid recent unspoiled is ‘Our secret territory: The emphasize of storytelling’ (Sentient Publications, June 2011). Laura has had a very dangerous and everlasting influence support the storytelling revival imprison the U
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Next Saturday’s blog will start a new series. So far, I haven’t decided the subject. Anything you’d like to see? Please jot a note in the Comment box at the end of this blog and I’ll try to respond.
Next Thursday, March 1st, itâs going to be World Book Day, St David’s Day and my next WIPs meeting all on the same day. World Book Day speaks for itself â a day to celebrate the book, it’s usually a busy one for authors and storytellers. St Davidâs Day, in case you donât know already, is the national day of Wales. It marks the death of our Patron Saint. As for WIPs, thatâs a group of us who meet every couple of months to present something creative weâve each been working on. Among us are singers, pianists, an oboe player, writers, a composer of music and a sculptor. Next Thursday, Iâm planning to do a story set in Wales.
Here meantime is another Welsh story, the last in my series for younger children and an ideal story for telling next week.
The Door In The Mountain
Once there was a girl who loved singing and running. One day when she was playing hide and seek with her friends, she ran away from the rest to look for a place to hide and came across a door in the mountain. The door was ajar and she went inBehind the door was a tu