We are a group of pupils of age five and we are attending our last year in Porta Aberta kindergarten.
Last Monday, 27th October, we started our puppet workshop where we are going to learn how to make puppets for our new project called "Johnny's Seven Friends".
An Art and Craft teacher from the main school came to our class and talked about one of the characters of this project whose name is "Joãozinha", Johnny in English. We were really excited and anxious to start making our puppet but before making it we had to draw the different parts of Johnny's body.
On 29th of September we got a puppet theater in Korpuskóli. It was The pocket theater than came and showed us the Saga of Egil. It was performed for kids in 4th to 7th grade and they really enjoyed it.
THE POCKET THEATRE was founded in 1984 by Hallveig Thorlacius with the purpose of telling old Icelandic stories she loved listening to as a child in her grandmother´s kitchen. Iceland has always been in the role of the storyteller in Europe, ever since the first settlers came sailing from Norway in the Viking Age. Modern audiences prefer to see stories, so Hallveig has developed her own style of storytelling - with puppets. She invites us to enter the story with her. She plays for us and with us at the same time. This combination has captured a steadily growing audience.
THE POCKET THEATRE is based in Reykjavík and has travelled all over Iceland, to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, England, Slovenia, China, Canada and USA. Hallveig can perform in Icelandic, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French or Russia. This performance is the Saga of Egil in a nutshell - a mixture of puppet- clown- shadow- and storytelling-theatre for ages 6-106.By taking on the role of the clown who is always non-judgmental the storyteller can approach this bloody Viking story from an unexpected angle.
