Who might your creative team be? Where would you like to stage it? Who would you like to be in it? Write a theatrical pitch: A pitch is basically putting your ideas and concept on paper in order to try to get a theatre to commission it.Find a story you want to adapt: When do you want it to be set? Where do you want to set it? What style/genre is your piece? Let your imagination take you wherever it wants to.You can email them to us here, or tag us on Twitter ( or Instagram ( feel free not to share and to just be creative for yourself. If you do create a response to this show, we'd love to see what you make. The following are some provocations inspired by The Tinderbox. Every single voice has contributed to the creation of the text, and each person has inspired me. The best part of the writing process has been that it was not just my imagination at work but those of the eighteen Young Company actors and creative team. As long as money rules the world, the plot will continue to be relevant. As long as there are soldiers and wars, the central character will continue to be sympathetic. Yet we found that there were parallels with our own world. When The Tinderbox was written back in 1835, Hans Christian Andersen’s Denmark was a very different place to now, with an absolute monarch on the throne and the kind of poverty that could impose mortal penalties. The source can be adjusted to serve one’s own purposes whilst remaining entirely recognisable. The fun of adapting outward is that there is plenty of space for flights of imagination but with a seaworthy carrier to return to. A good story, but one that would need expansion. In the case of The Tinderbox, it has been the opposite. When I used to imagine an adaptation project, I always pictured myself pouring over a lengthy novel and then soldiering through an almost as lengthy process of condensation and distillation. We have done all of this together and created a story, and a world, that we now want to share with you.Ī note about the adaptation by Silva Semerciyan We have sung The White Stripes at the top of our lungs, and spent mornings in the dark playing with matches. We have thrown (and caught) chairs, jumped rhythmically in formations, talked of powerful women and tyrannical men. Everything that you see on stage (and much more) has come from the cast a fearless and wonderfully creative ensemble of young theatre makers. Working in this way has allowed the creative freedom of exploration and devising, with the anchor of a writer to bring it all together. The Tinderbox has been devised by Young Company, and the material beautifully crafted and written by Silva Semerciyan. This story has allowed us to investigate the past, the present and the possibilities of ‘what if’. I was attracted to the dual worlds of fantasy and reality, but also to themes that are both timeless and relevant to the world that we live in now - from the brutality and reasons for war, to the valuing of women based on their appearance. What initially drew me to the story was the exciting combination of a War, a Soldier, a Princess and magic. The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen is just seven pages long, but the questions it raises and leaves unanswered are what make this story ripe to devise with. Tinderbox: A metal box for holding tinder and usually a flint and steel for creating a spark and/or a potentially explosive place or situation Larson wears medium or large women’s clothes and size 14 pants, while Thompson and Thomas both wear 2XL and Zephyr is a size 4 or 5.An introduction to The Tinderbox by director Lisa Gregan Those looking to donate food, clothes, or other goods can drop it off at Critical Gaming at 4 W. Those who would like to donate can find their Facebook link at. There was no getting back in that building.” “If we had been out five minutes later, we wouldn’t be alive,” Larson said. Larson said that in spite of everything, she’s happy the four of them were able to get out. Larson’s mother shared a Facebook donation link shortly after the fire occurred at 6 a.m., and in just the day since, the donation link is already up to over $1,800. With only a day having passed since their lives were upended, the community has already rallied to help the four of them. “We can handle ourselves from this point. “We have to find a place to stay and that takes our dog,” Larson said.
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