Having listened to and discussed with teachers the focus on the spoken language within the national curriculum, Bookfest has partnered up with Pentabus Theatre – the nation’s leading rural touring theatre company who is based in Shropshire to devise a wide-ranging competition for children to showcase their creative response to the shortlisted books – The Creative Response Competition

We are very excited to be able to offer schools the support of industry leading theatre practitioners from Pentabus in TWO ways:

How Create a Film Trailer

with Izzy Rabey

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How to Write a “Whistle Stop Narrative”

with Izzy Rabey

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How to Write & Perform a Soliloquy

with Mari Izzard

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How to Write & Perform a Dialogue

with Sierra O’Neill

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How to Write & Perform a Radio Drama

with Ben Quashie

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And now – click here – to find out how to enter the Creative Response Competition!

Feel free to print out some fun Pentabus style tools!

2.  Pentabus In-School Workshops:

(Extra option – not included in sign up/participation fees already paid by schools):

Pentabus Theatre is also offering all Book Award 2022 participating schools the opportunity for one of their industry professionals to come into the classroom to deliver a choice of bespoke, 1 hour workshops with your pupils.  Thanks to generous funding, these sessions are being offered exclusively to Book Award 2022 schools at just £150 per session plus travel for one workshop leader.  You can choose from the following topics to cover during a workshop:

1. • Hot seating: Do you have a favourite character from the books you’ve read? Or a character that you find really interesting? Then why don’t you put them in the ‘hot seat’?
   • Story in 3: “One, two, three” offers you the opportunity to use theatre techniques to explore the best way to tell your story in three minutes.
   • Scriptwriting: Using playwriting techniques, develop dialogue, new secret scenes or soliloquys from characters you’d love to know more about.

These sessions are limited to first come, first served so to find out more and to book an in-school workshop please contact Ant Stones NOW at Pentabus Theatre: ant@pentabus.co.uk (direct line: 01584 856 564).