Edith's Big Adventure

Performance Dates: 24th April 2010 
Venue: Hanger Farm Arts Centre 

Production Information:
Edith’s Big Adventure is part of Forest Forge’s community project ‘Everyday Stories’ and involves puppetry and live music. 

Lisa Halpin, Community Theatre Officer of Forest Forge, works with several community groups and schools in the New Forest area. On this project, she worked from the premise of gathering everyday stories from the participants. One area Lisa gathered stories was ‘first experiences’, relating to first jobs after leaving school, first loves and living during WWII. From these stories, the groups worked to create a character, who they named Edith, and amalgamated their experiences to create her everyday story. Moulded were then given the task of bringing Edith to life and creating a short piece using the character profile built by the community groups.

Synopsis: 
It is 1939 and Edith’s first day at Webb’s the dressmakers. Her Big Adventure starts on the bus where her Granddad is the conductor so gives her a free ride! It progresses into her first day at Webb’s where she meets her soon to be lifelong friend Joan. They go dancing together at the Hammersmith Palais, where Edith meets and dances with Sidney. The outbreak of World War II causes Edith’s parents to prevent her from using the London buses, so she is forced to find work elsewhere, which she soon does at a local pipe-fitter’s. We then see her relationship with Sidney starting to blossom.
It was excellent, well done!
Changeovers very smooth and clever exchange of roles
The character changes were recognisable and each was unique. The puppet was very clever, and well used
It was good!
I liked the dancing
Edith was funny!
I liked the sewing bit and the violin
my favourite bit was when they were on the bus and there were potholes in the road
I liked the puppet walking to the bus stop at the start
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