A Moose In The Hoose is our newest production, and is specially written for the youngest members of the school (up to P3), including the nursery.
We've taken the book and set it to music for bassoon, clarinet and.....audience!
The children will see the pictures, hear the Scots text and learn about the Scots words for numbers and animals in a traditional-style storytime reading. Then we're ready to make up a story and hear the musical themes for each of the animal characters. The grand finale is a song with actions, for everybody to join in. And of course, because there's only Simon and Jo to perform the show, we'll need lots of help throughout from our wee audience members.
The performance has a nice intimate feel, where individual children can feel at ease to contribute their own comments and actions, and we like to keep the audience numbers to a maximum of 60. The show lasts about 40mins, so we can perform several in a day, or we can follow on with workshops that develop the music and Scots language content.
The numbers go from 1 to 20, then 100 and 1000, and each number has an animal character.
