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The very excellent Hannah Speke is the first blogger...
It's been a pretty busy week Yew Tree wise this week. I've had Yearbook rehearsals and then performances in Barnsley and Featherstone as part of the first week of Yearbook's six week tour across Barnsley and Wakefield high schools performing to year 7 pupils.
As well as doing Yearbook I spent my Thursday afternoon with the lovely Orange company. Their numbers have significantly increased since the new term started and so even getting through best and worst is a mammoth task.
Once we'd got through that and played a few games to make sure everyone was warmed up, we cracked on with putting together Orange's version of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' which is going to be performed at the Yew Tree Christmas shows.
This week Sarah was in charge of the elves, Tom had the reindeer and I got to work with the lovely weather fairies. We had a read through and then chatted about characters and how each of the weather fairies had different personalities and therefore might move and act differently. We decided that one fairy was a little bit grumpy and another was girly and always fluttering her wings. There were loads of other fabulous ideas, but listing them all would turn this blog into a novel. So instead of doing that I would just like to mention Olivia, who only started last week and just got stuck in with the other fairies and said her lines beautifully.
At the end of the session we watched the work the other groups had been doing and it's looking great. You're all in for a treat at the Christmas shows!

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