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Hopscotch’s well loved performances for community centres, venues or schools!

Please find information regarding Hopscotch’s upcoming performances that can be toured to community centres, arts venues or schools!  We have 25 years experience of touring quality, educational productions for young people full of humour and original song! 

Day and Evening slots available – weekday or weekend!
 
Hamish’s Healthy Nutrition Mission!  
Full of humour and song, join unhealthy Hamish on a thrilling inner body adventure as he discovers how important healthy eating is for a fit, ready-for-fun life!
Suitable for ages 5 to 13
Cost: £395.00 (plus touring costs where applicable)
Duration: 55 minutes
Dates available in May and June 2013.


Pink! the Musical Funded by Creative Scotland / National Lottery 
A performance that promotes acceptance and tolerance of all the differences we have!  When Patrick the penguin wakes up pink, he feels blue and embarks on a journey across the globe and discovers that he is accepted, no matter what colour he is!
Suitable for ages 4 – 8
Cost: £250.00
Duration: 40 minutes
Weekends and evenings available from March to May!

TWO OF OUR WELL LOVED PANTO’S ARE ON OFFER THIS YEAR…

Cinderella
The traditional tale of Cinders and her not-so-nice sisters with a Hopscotch twist!  
Suitable for ages 5 +
Cost: £650.00 (plus touring costs where applicable)
Duration: 55 minutes
Dates available in November & December! 
Day and Evening slots available – weekday or weekend!

Dick Whittington and his Amazing Cat!

Duration: 55 minutes
Dates available in December!

Day and Evening slots available – weekday or weekend!

 No pushy sales or obligation!   Set up time of 1 hour, get out time of just 30 minutes! 

 
Just email or give us a call for more information and / or to book!
“ My Learning is enhanced and enriched through partnership with a professional arts company”.
Susan McGregor,
General Manager
Hopscotch Theatre Company
Seven Water Row
Govan, Glasgow
G51 3UW
Tel/ Fax 0141 440 2025
Registered Charity. No. SC 022633
Follow us on Twitter! @ HopscotchTiE
DRAMA WORKSHOPS 
Available throughout term. 
90 mins -2 Hopscotch drama workers – 2 classes (66 pupils) – fulfilling the 4 capacities of CfE
“ I have experienced the energy & excitement of performing and of being part of an audience”.
Eco / Scotland During The Blitz / Anti Bullying / Fair Trade / Burns an’ a’ That Workshops 
“ Nurtures my creative and aesthetic talents”

‘TAM O’SHANTER’ (PERFORMANCE) 
Touring January to March 2013.  Running Time 40 minutes (plus 10-15 min Q+A session).  
Suitable for P4 to adult
Our popular, dynamic dramatisation returns for another year.

Hopscotch’s take on the exciting tale of Richard and his canny cat Bingo!
Suitable for ages 5 +
Cost: £650.00 (plus touring costs where applicable)
David Livingstone and the African King
From Blantyre to deepest Africa… a fun, thrilling dramatisation of Livingstone’s life and work performed in the round and filled with original sing-a-long songs.
Suitable for all ages
Cost: £250.00
Duration: 55 minutes

Available on the following dates:
Monday 18th PM
Tuesday 19th AM
Thursday 21st AM or PM
Friday 22nd AM or PM
Day and Evening slots available – weekday or weekend!

 

Check out what’s available from Hopscotch Theatre Company

Hopscotch present a brand new fun and educational show!  Find out the truth about Vikings, Saints, Kings and commoners, heroes and villains, Wallace and Bruce, Mary, Queen of Scots, Robert Burns, the Victorians and much, much more. 

All the history you thought you knew and lots more besides.

 SUITABLE FOR: P1 – P7    DURATION: 55 minutes     COST: £395.00

Adapted for S1 & S2
DATES: Mon 10th Sept – Fri 26th Oct 2012

Click here for more info and how to book! 

Learning Opportunity: Hopscotch Theatre Company – ‘When the Oil Ran Out’

 ‘When the Oil Ran Out’ – 55 min performance
Touring: 6 Feb-April 2012
Cost:  £395.00
Multi-levelled, suitable for P1-P7

Kevin is an average twenty-first century Scottish schoolchild.  He expects to be driven around, fed and kept warm and entertained without a thought for the effect that he is having on the planet.  But one day he awakens to shocking news – oil reserves really are running out!
No more cheap petrol, no more cheap holidays, no more cheap anything.
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT HAS TO CHANGE.
In the inimitable Hopscotch style, this funny and thought provoking play provides an excellent opportunity to explore many cross-curricular aspects of Curriculum for Excellence and provide a starting point for meeting several experiences and outcomes on Social Studies, Sciences and Expressive Arts.  Songs sent to schools in advance.

Call Hopscotch on 0141 440 2025 to book a show today!
www.hopscotchtheatre.com

Learning Opportunities: Hopscotch Theatre Company – Drama Workshops

Drama Workshops – 90 min with two facilitators
Cost:  £175.00 (plus touring costs where applicable).
Suitable for 2 x classes of upper primary and adapted for secondary pupils.

Hopscotch offers a range of workshops, which are available throughout the year:

Eco Drama
Exploring the issues of sustainability, conservation and climate change both locally and at global levels.

Drama & Democracy
Looking at the concepts of citizenship, democracy, self empowerment and responsibility

Blitz Drama
Creating evacuee scenarios and using drama conventions such as hot seating, thought tracking and conscience alley.

Fair Trade
Investigating Global Citizenship, Human Rights and our relationship with developing nations.

“Great fun, the workshop has really added to our WWII topic.  Really enjoyed the level of active participation, the introductory role play was a great way to set the scene.” P7 Teacher, Oxgang PS, 13 October 2011

Call Hopscotch on 0141 440 2025 to book.
www.hopscotchtheatre.com

Learning Opportunity: Hopscotch Theatre Company – A Brief History of Scotland

 ‘A Brief History of Scotland’ – 55 min performance
Touring:  Sept – Nov 2012
Cost:  £395.00
Multi-levelled, suitable for P1-P7

An exciting whirlwind journey through our nations history featuring Kings and Queens, battles and invasions and traditional music and song.

Call Hopscotch on 0141 440 2025 to book a show today!
www.hopscotchtheatre.com

Learning Opportunity:Hopscotch Theatre Company – ‘Dick Whittington’

‘Dick Whittington’ – 55 min performance
Touring:  Nov – Jan 2013
Cost:  £550 – £600
Suitable for P1 – P7 (and nursery)
Traditional panto with the Hopscotch twist!
“Thanks for entertaining us all so well, and giving my P7 class a positive experience of live theatre” Yester PS, Mother Goose, Nov 2011

Call Hopscotch on 0141 440 2025 to book a show today!
www.hopscotchtheatre.com 

Available 1/11/12 to 31/1/13