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Ah-ha me hearties!
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus needs your help to hatch a cunning plan of escape from the enormous pirate ship. Are you game?
Aged from 10 to 17 years old, the highly skilled cast of Pirates will captivate with their dazzling, daring and acrobatic antics. Trapeze performed on the ship's rigging, trampolining from a sunken deck, and a large sea monster based on the Chinese lion puppet will have the whole family in awe!
"I have always very much appreciated the work done at this circus school and the work the Fruit Flies do generally. They are a national and internationally renowned performance outfit in circus arts." The Honourable Peter Garrett, Federal Minister for Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (1 May 2009)
Peer-to-peer tutelage is a valuable teaching tool. Children will be inspired by the courage and skill of this young cast. The large-scale pirate ship encourages students to build storydramas using set, costume, and voice characterisation in follow-up class work.
Ages: all ages
Essential Learnings QCAR Framework
Ways of working -The Arts
Respond to arts works and describe initial impressions and personal interpretations, using arts elements and languages
Knowledge and understanding - Drama
Role can be established using movement, voice, performance space, cues and turn-taking
Assessable element
Responding
E.g. Enlist a crew for a pirate ship of your own! Choose one character - Captain, First Mate, Boatswain, Surgeon/Carpenter, Cook or Gunner - and decide on their costume, voice, physical attributes and props. Then role play for a day!
- How does the Captain talk and walk
- First Mate's uniform makes him feel important, what does he wear
- Create a vocabulary, listing words that suit each role
- Make a prop to identify each character
Before
- Deck games - Play quoits, tug-o-war, rope jumping, rubber band (elastic) rope jumping
- Sunken treasures - Hide a box of treasure in the playground and draw a map of its secret location
- Glossary of terms - List words related to sea voyaging e.g. to circumnavigate is to travel around the edge
- Naval vessels - Create a graph of different types of ships categorised by size, power supply, numbers of passengers
- Heroic sea voyages - Read about Jesse Martin who in 1999 became the youngest person in history to circumnavigate the globe without assistance and using no fossil fuels. He was aged 18. Track Jessica Watson's voyage around the world via her blog jessicawatson.com.au. Born 18 May 1993 on the Gold Coast, Jessica currently lives in Buderim Australia. Attitude: Always make the best of everything, be positive, ask questions, lots of questions.
Books
- Bubble Bath Pirates by Jarrett Krosoczka
- Do Pirates Take Baths? by Kathy Tucker
- Pie Rats Ahoy! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2) by Richard Scarry
- Captain Abdul's Pirate School by Colin McNaughton
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Originally serialised for children, this is an opportunity for teachers or parents to read-aloud with children in class or at home.
About the company
Visit the Fruit Fly Circus Website.