Scarecrow

By Mike Kenny

Writer: Mike Kenny, ACE      Children’s Award 2000

Director: Rosamunde Hutt, ex-director of Theatre Centre, now associate director at the Unicorn Theatre for Children

Performers: Mick Jasper
and Iain Armstrong

Musician: Sharon Lindo

Composer: Sharon Lindo

Designer:Jane Linz Roberts

Age range: 5 to 9

Scarecrow is playing at the Unicorn Theatre for Children from January 18 to 29 2012, bar 23 and 24

Download the Spring 2011 programme here...
(pdf 258k PDF).

Or view it online here...

 

2010 Tours:

Autumn 2010 HTML

Autumn 2010 PDF

April-July 2010 HTML

April-July 2010 PDF

Scarecrow - A Play for 5 to 9 year olds and their families
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Additional Spring 2011 performances:

April 8: Strachur Memorial Hall, Argyll and Bute: 7.45pm  01369 860776

April 9: The Victory Hall, Benderloch, Argyll and Bute: 2.30pm  01631 720498

May 21: Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford: 11am and 2pm  01483 440000

June 4: Square Chapel, Halifax: 2.30pm  01422 349422

June 5: The Civic, Barnsley: 2.30pm  01226 327000

June 10: Letchworth Arts Centre: 4.00pm and 6.30pm  01462 670788

June 11: Derby Theatre: 11am and 2pm 01332 255800

June 12: The Carriageworks, Leeds: 12 and 2.30pm  0113 2243801

 

A furrowed field. The end of winter. The distant cawing of crows.

A couple of farm workers turn up with a bundle of sticks and a pile of old clothes. They build a scarecrow.

This is the story of a lonely scarecrow and a bunch of noisy crows. It’s about solitude and community in hard, hard times.

The scarecrow hates the crows. Well that’s what you’d expect. But every time he chases them off they just keep coming back. The crows can take or leave the scarecrow. They’re too busy squabbling, eating and living their lives. All he wants is to be left alone.

We follow their relationship over a year, from their beginnings as enemies, to their conclusion as grudging friends.

From the creative team that brought you The Gardener, nominated for The Children’s Theatre Prize in Germany and The Chronos Prize in France.

Mike is writer of the critically acclaimed York Theatre Royal production of E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children which has just completed a successful run at the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station London. The award-winning production will now transfer to Toronto’s Railway Heritage Museum, where it will open this summer. The production also returns to Waterloo Station in June for a summer run.

The Railway Children has also scooped the Best Entertainment prize in the 35th Laurence Olivier Awards!

Mike was also included in the Independent on Sunday's list of Top Ten Living UK Playwrights.

And Scarecrow was shortlisted for Best Play for Children & Young People at the The Writers' Guild of Great Britain 2010.

 

For bookings and information contact:

Iain Armstrong
t: 01895 421826 or 07718 049723
e: irross@btinternet.com

 

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