Pinocchia
Productions:
Animal Farm
Lashings of Ginger Beer
Macbeth
The Wizard of Oz
Frankenstein
Pinocchia
The Railway Children
The Tempest
A Christmas Carol
Winchester: The First…
A King's City Christmas
Changes
4 Calling Birds
It’s A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Cornucopia
Around The World In Eighty Days
The Selfish Giant
Much Ado About Nothing
Grimm Tales
Tales From The Arabian Nights
The Snow Queen
The Hotel
The Happy Prince
Hamlet
Living Without Fear
The Government Inspector
Captain Miserable & The Book Guardian
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The first five years…
Programme | Director's Notes | Cast & Crew | Gallery | Trailer | Audience reviews
Blue Apple’s first ever online play - the classic story of Pinocchio, retold for the digital age of 2020. Featuring theatre, dance, puppetry and film, and told with Blue Apple’s trademark wit and charm.
Watch the performance here
Programme
Director's Notes
What a year. What a challenging and difficult year in which our cast has had to learn new skills and draw on reserves of patience and goodwill like never before.
My mantra for 2020 has been ‘everything is different, but nothing has changed’ as we continued to find new ways to carry on doing what we did before; telling stories and giving our cast chance to step into the limelight.
Very early on in our process the cast and company decided to put the ‘classic’ tale of the wooden-puppet-boy to one side and to look at how technology shines a light on what it means to be human (our theme for winter ‘20 and summer ‘21). Tablets, PCs & smartphones saved so many from crushing isolation when the pandemic hit that it felt like they were the heroes of the day.
Blue Apple remains undaunted by pandemics; this year has made us more expansive even as our physical limitations shrunk. We have developed and strengthened international links and this piece will be seen by audiences in far flung places. It feels like we’ll never quite go back to normal - what we are learning through this and other digital projects will remain and enhance theatrical experiences for the future.
I’m so proud of how our cast have coped over the year which will soon be behind us. They deserve a decent Christmas and, as soon as possible, a vaccine as a present…a real shot in the arm for the coming year.
Richard Conlon, Blue Apple Artistic Director
Gallery
Trailer
Cast & Crew
Frank: Sam Dace
Verity: Ros Davies
Eva (voice): Katy Francis
Eva (moves): James Elsworthy
Allotment Holders
Kym Nash, Ali Sinclair-Wilson, Alice Peck, Paul Smith, Tom Hatchett, James Benfield, James Spencer, Neil White, Lucy Parrot, David Hunt, Anna Brisbane, Neil Bennet, Lawrie Morris, Tommy Jessop.
Frank’s Neighbours
Lucy Thomas, Daniel Austin, Joseph Guerrier, Jonny Ling, George Collingwood.
Frank’s Anxiety Dream
Andy Canning, Joseph Jeffrey, Helen Burns.
Volunteers: Michelle Pluck, Rachel Collins, Chris Pearce, Mary Richards, Clare Talks, Cat Randall, Sorcha Young, Sue Dashper, Henry Davies, Arthur Ferencei, Kai Marshall, Oscar Vogel, Harry Wilson, Henry Chipperfield.
‘Nature Boy’: Sung By Paul Smith, Danced by Tommy Jessop
The Creative Team
Art Direction and Eva Puppet: Polly Perry
Technical Creatives: Samuel Morley, Django Pinter
Video Technician: Carl Martin
Video Editing: Laura Walton
Music: Kate Mellors
Director - Richard Conlon
Photography - Mike Hall