A Gothic Fairytale
| Presented by | The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts |  | | Dates | Tue 21 Jul 2009 - Sat 25 Jul 2009 | | | Time | Opening night Tuesday 6:30pm
Wednesday - Saturday 11.30am and 6.30pm | | | Cost | Unreserved Theatre Seating:
Full: $20 Web/Phone/Door
Concession: $15 Web/Phone/Door
School Students: $12 Web/Phone/Door
School Groups (10 or more): $10 Phone/Door only
For every ticket purchased receive a FREE ticket to 'Auslan for Everyone - The Grimstones Workshop'. Free tickets not available online. To book phone the Box Office on 3872 9000. Bookings are essential as places are limited. | | | Concession | Full-time students, pensioners, unemployed and health care cardholders ONLY. (NB: Not senior cardholders) | | | Venue | Performance Space | | | Enquiries | Box Office: Monday to Friday
12 noon - 4pm. 07 3872 9000
or email boxoffice@jwcoca.qld.gov.au | | | Artform | Theatre - Drama | | | Type | Performance |
Experience a compelling and magical fairytale about The Grimstone family. There is a girl who reads dreams, a baby boy with three legs, a mother who sews garments lined with warmth and joy, and a grandfather who heals people with his magic potions. Hatched celebrates the wonder of books, the acceptance of difference, family love and the simple pleasures of life.
The story is told with giant books, old-world marionettes and sign language. Gertrude Grimstone (Asphyxia) and her assistant August (Paula Dowse), the delightful story-tellers and puppeteers, interact with the puppets and have their own role to play in The Grimstones fairytale.
the story
A young girl, Martha Grimstone, lives with her mother Velvetta and grandfather Elcho. Martha is gifted with the ability to see peoples’ dreams and she sees her mother’s eternal longing for more babies. Martha’s father died when she was a baby and her mother still grieves for the many children they had planned together. The young girl urges her grandfather, Elcho, to use his skills in magic to cast a spell that will create a baby for her mother. When Elcho refuses she creeps into his apothecary late at night and works the spell herself, producing a large egg. When her grandfather discovers what she has done he is horrified: she has made a crucial mistake in the spell and the results will be catastrophic!
When the egg finally hatches a very strange looking baby boy emerges. Martha and Elcho soon realise that the baby will
never grow up. But in time the baby, Crumpet, helps Velvetta to set aside her grief and rediscover joy.
And so Martha’s wish comes true—her family is united at last.
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