Polyglot December enews

Season’s greetings from all at Polyglot. 2008 has been an extraordinary year for Polyglot – with appearances at the Melbourne International Arts Festival and international congresses UNIMA and ASSITEJ, alongside performances at the Awesome Festival, the Arts Centre and the Sydney Opera House, five in-school tours, the launch of our Tap puppetry residencies, two new works, a schools residency project, a workshops program, loads of one-off performances and festival appearances and much, much more.

Polyglot staff are also jetsetting off around the world with Artistic Director Sue Giles recenly returning from a week spent in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with a local puppet company Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Her time there was spent working with Artistic Director Maria Tri Sulistyani on Dalam Sebuah Perjalanan (On a Journey). The connection between the companies (Papermoon and Polyglot) is strong and reason for being remarkably similar. Thanks Asialink for making it possible – thanks Papermoon for making it memorable.

General Manager Simon Abrahams is also travelling to the United States in January to attend the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase. Watch this space for updates about his travels.

We’re looking forward to another big year in 2009 including Check Out! undertaking a 57-day theatres tour which will travel 4,834 kilometres across Victoria in February, March and April 2009. We also have an international tour lined up, plus a new show to premiere, another Tap residency, workshops and loads more. Thanks for your support in 2008 and rest assured – Polyglot remains a vibrant centre of artistic opportunity, creating original theatrical adventures for children, nationally and internationally.

The Polyglot office will be closed from 19th December, 2008 until 5 January, 2009.

		CHECK OUT!		Upcoming Dates:
		Check Out! is a wickedly funny work of theatre about the consumer culture bonanza. Set in a supermarket, Check Out! follows the remarkable adventures of tantrum-throwing Baby who is determined to get what she wants.		VIC- 27.02.09 - 19.04.09 Victorian regional and metropolitan theatres tour > MORE INFO
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		HISSY FIT		Upcoming Dates:
		A sideshow-alley snake charming act that goes horribly wrong, this Vaudeville-style roving performance of physical slapstick and extra large puppetry involves two bumbling snake charmers and a gigantic snake. Although they think they're in control, the snake outwits our bumbling charmers at every turn.		VIC - 11:30am 18.01.09 Midsumma Festival at the Alexandra Gardens > MORE INFO
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	POLYGLOT SCHOOLS AND FESTIVALS WORKSHOPS
	Polyglot's popular program of workshops continues in schools and at festivals and special events. Our workshops include rod puppetry, shadow puppetry, marionette making and a host of custom-made workshops from junk puppetry to physical theatre. Polyglot believes puppetry is limitless in its flexibility and imagination, allowing children's creative choices to take form and shape in an entertaining and constructive way. Perfect for end-of-year functions, perhaps alongside one of our roving performances.
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		THE BLOCK		Upcoming Dates:
		The Block is set in a block of flats where we see different characters and intriguing stories in every window. When a flood threatens the block, the tenants have to work together as they try to escape. In an escalating scenario we learn that when people are in a sticky situation, sometimes all very best comes flooding forth.		VIC - 12.10.09 - 30.10.09 Victorian regional and metropolitan schools tour > MORE INFO
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COBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL RESIDENCY

Polyglot has just completed an in-schools residency at Coburn Primary School, Melton, where the entire school – all 330 children – have worked with a group of Polyglot’s artists in partnership with Arts Victoria to create a promenade performance titled The Impossible Zoo, where the school was turned into a zoo for the night, where guests were taken on a ride through strange enclosures meeting weird and wonderful animals. The project has been led by four of Polyglot's artists, Merophie Carr, Karen Kyriakou, Mischa Long and Sophie Buttner.

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We have a number of double cinema passes available to our subscribers for Animals in Love. In many aspects, animal behaviour is reminiscent of our own, and this journey through the beautiful, fascinating, amusing world of animals in love cannot fail to strike a very familiar chord.

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		CROMWELL ROAD THEATRE
		Did you know Polyglot’s home, the Cromwell Road Theatre, is a professional, user-friendly venue available for creative developments, workshops, rehearsals or public performances? We still have some 2009 dates available, mostly in the second half of the year – please book in early as space is limited and always books out!
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Polyglot Puppet Theatre 27A Cromwell Road South Yarra Victoria Australia 3141	T: +61 3 9827 9667 F: +61 3 9826 1937 E: info@polyglotpuppets.com.au