Mrs. Santa in her Kitchen of Tales
Listen to Mrs. Santa's story of how Santa Claus lost the Spirit of Christmas and the Little Green Bird found it again! Make a Christmas bird decoration to take home and hang on the Christmas tree. Here is some feedback for the show with performances in Norwich, Sheringham and South Norfolk. 'Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Great fun with the play and craft, lovely idea!'
'I liked everything the best.' Rosa 4 and a half. 'Again
such a lovely imaginative time spent here, thanks. The interaction and
actions were brilliant. Lovely humour - just so thoughtful.'
Thank you so much, both my girls really enjoyed it!
The story was wonderful and the art work was brill. My girls really
enjoyed decorating their birds!' 'My children
loved this, it had just the right amount of story and interaction to
keep them involved. I hope to bring them to other events.'    Interactive Theatre We offer original site specific/interactive theatre with integrated creative activity or follow up workshops for children of all ages. Please scroll down for details of curren and past productions. These plays are all available to book.
THE TEDDY BEARS' POTTY PORRIDGE ADVENTURE (for 3-6 year olds)
'Teddy Bear Fantastic!' Goldilocks eats Baby Bear's porridge, the Queen of Oats is hungry and the Porridge Jester doesn't know what to do. It's his last chance to make a decent bowl of porridge or he's fired! Will you help the Porridge Jester make the best porridge ever. Search for wooden spoons in the Spoon Meadow and make your own magical porridge in the Oat Fairies kitchen. Hands on excitement and real doing theatre, with plenty of joining in, learning the story of porridge, making and dancing at the Queen of Oats Breakfast Feast! This play encourages children to learn about where food comes from and what happens to it. It encourages imagination, creativity, motor skills, agility, memory and spoken word. The children make their own magical porridge during the play. Duration: 1 hour minimum
Learning to curtsey and bow
Goldilocks
Bad Porridge!
Hunting for wooden spoons in Spoon Meadow
The Fairy Oatmother and Porridge Jester demonstrate how to make magic porridge!
Doing the Potty Porridge Dance!
Feedback from our Audience
THE DRAGON SEEKER'S QUEST!
‘What a fabulous, magical retreat into wonderland. So well thought out and planned. Thank you so much. ‘ (Mia, George and Grace) Tad the young dragon-seeker in training has to find the courage to complete his quest but needs help to make a hero’s elixir, get past ‘the story that must be told,’ solve riddles from the Old Dragon Woman and save the Spoilt Princess and then he must face the dragon and do the right thing! After the quest there is also chance to create a small cardboard dragon to take home!
Ribollito, the grumpy Alchemist in his lair!
The play focuses on Olympic ideals of courage and determination. Children are gently fed medieval social history, learn to measure and weigh ingredients, meet herbs and their smells, create their own potions, solve riddles, participate in a dragon scale hunt and use their creativity and craft skills to make their own individual dragon to take home.
Another Ribollito - this time in Catton Park!
Feedback for The Dragon Seeker's Quest ‘A brilliant afternoon – lots of different imaginative activities and the boys really got into the story. Great fun! (and for the more mature dragon slayers too!)
THE DAY THE DINOSAURS CAME BACK (5+)
There is something scary going on at the back of Wood End School, something dark. Strange noises, trees snapped in two like twigs and what happened to that cow? Join the singing narrator, Hetty Lay the dinner lady turned sleuth and young reporter Jodie Crick, as they expose the primeval truth and save the city and the world from the kind of transformation that would return the world of the time of the dinosaurs! Children learn about animal tracks and tracking, DNA, reptiles, environmental impact of food shortages and climate change. They make a plaster cast of a dinosaur foot print to keep. There is an acoustic dinosaur soundscape and children can enjoy a post-performance acoustic workshop creating atmosphere and paint their dinosaur footprints or engage in creative writing associated with the play. Duration: 2 hours minimum. Audience Feedback 'My kids were buzzing with ideas after the show - you really captured their imaginations interactive theatre in natural surroundings - I don't think it gets much better.'
'What a lovely experience - we both really enjoyed it - a wonderful way to enjoy theatre and park.'
'i rely lovd that. it was fantastic. samuel Butler (6)
Samuel thought this was 'absolutely super.' fantastic combination of theatre, music and mystery with great ad-libbing as the young and older members of the audience participated. What a lovely afternoon. I look forward to the next one! (Penny Butler).
'Sublime karate kick by dinner lady!'
'I liked the way the green man's leg went up and down when he got gobbled up.'
'I thought it was great the way the craft activity was an important part of the story.'
'Absolutely excellent day out. Good value for money. well done!'
'Brilliant, very funny and wonderful interaction with the children. They loved the dinner lady character. She was very funny.' The Gowing Family.
The Sinister Man in Green delivers some rather odd-looking eggs!
Bloody animal bones are discovered in the woods!
The Singing Narrator
Making plaster casts of dinosaur footprints!
A Velociraptor track!
The Sinister Man in Green is keeping a secret in a tunnel nearby.
Will Jodie Crick, Ace Reporter discover the terrible secret of the woods?
Hetty Lay Dinner Lady Sleuth on Mission Impossible!
'Entertaining and very good value interactive theatre.'
'I can't wait to paint my dinosaur foot.' George Begant.
 Hetty Lay and Old Jones act out the sad end of the Sinister Man in Green...
The only thing left of the villain is his his LEG!
The Dragon Seeker's Quest, Teddy Bears' Potty Porridge Adventure and The Day The Dinosaurs Came Back are available to tour: Please contact us for details. Call 01603 250 122 or email: thegreenwordtree@gmail.com
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