Autumn Workshops “The Beggars’ Wedding”

In our Autumn workshops we have been working on a traditional Dorset tale “The Beggars’ Wedding” using different media (drama, singing & music and sound recording) to explore the story’s key themes of love and betrayal, cruelty and kindness. Taking the text as a starting point Tony Horitz led an enjoyable theatre workshop, followed byKaren Wimhurst's music workshop in which we composed a song based on lines of the text and learned a lot about how music can be used to reflect emotions.  Finally Adrian Newton took us on a sonic journey through the story using sounds made by found objects as a story-telling device. This has started us thinking about a future project involving different media.  After Christmas we will be meeting to discuss this further.