Article for 2014 Jun 07

2014

2014 Jun

Jun 07 Sat

It’s going to be brand new, it’s going to be spectacular, it’s going to be the work of talented artists... and unlike the titular attire it’s actually going to exist. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Jigsaw Music Theatre’s latest production (and their last production assisted-directed by me): “The Emperor’s New Clothes”!

Jigsaw are back, following the success of March’s “The Firebird”, and it’s another fairytale, but this time it’ll be a Hans Christian Anderson one (as was 2011 Dec’s “The Snow Queen”), and performed outdoors (as was “The Snow Queen”), and entirely in song (in a Jigsaw first, for plays longer than five minutes anyway).

It’ll be performed by eager young actors (as was “The Snow Queen”) but not including me (I’m assisting‑directing and that’s totally a verb). Hopefully the weather will be kinder to us than it was for “The Snow Queen”.

But anyway, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is going to be performed in three different locations, one inside, two outside, in what may be a Jigsaw first. I’m still not sure what vain and vainglorious emperors have to do with WWI (perhaps it’s escapism from the horrors of history), but on Thursday Jul 03, it’ll be performed as part of the centenary concert at 7pm, at the Blue Coat Primary School on Walpole Street.

Then, on Saturday Jul 05, it’ll be performed three times: twice outside the town hall (at 11am and 11:45am), then as part of the Garden Quarter Remembers festival, on the Cambrian View stage at 1:30pm.

So, there are plenty of opportunities to see this magnificent creation. You’d have to be a fool not to!