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A Jurassic Coast story of 19th C discovery & acheivement for theatres and schools by award winning AsOne Theatre Co

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The Mary Anning Project is a project with two threads: a touring play - The Cabinet Maker's Daughter a 19th C story of love, dinosaur discovery,and achievement against odds - the life of Mary Anning, the Lyme Regis Fossil Hunter and of first female palaeontologists. The second is an interactive performance called ‘Mary Anning’s Fossil Depot’ led by ‘Mary Anning’ herself, as part of ‘Jurassic Creatures’, which consists of performance, participatory drama and painting workshops (with Fossil Fun for Kids)aimed at primary schools.

The touring play will be delivered from May-November 2012. The School's project from March - Dec 2012 It is anticipated that the launch will take place in the Dorset County Museum. The overall project aims to reach a target audience of 5,000. Working in partnership with: schools, Dorset County Museum and theatres throughout Wessex

As One Theatre’s 'The Cabinet Maker's Daughter’ and Mary Anning's Depot is theatre which aims to entertain, educate, motivate and inspire rural communities in the south west to explore the Jurassic coast through interactive performance. Working in theatres, schools, museums and village halls, these theatre projects will bring our heritage to life and raise Dorset's 2012 profile. Our vision is to form education, arts and tourism partnerships to enrich the Olympic experience for visitors. The Mary Anning story of struggle and achievements reflects and highlights the Olympic and Paralympic values:

Olympic Values:
• friendship
• respect
• excellence

Paralympic Values
• equality
• courage
• determination
• inspiration

Funding will enable the project to be offered at a subsidised rate for schools.

Evaluations will be carried out ranging from simple forms distributed pre-show at venues through to video interviews or recordings post shows or workshops, face-to-face discussions and the use of social media to gather Audience numbers; audience, student and teacher feedback? Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn will also be used for marketing and forum discussions.

The people of Dorset will benefit from this project by increased awareness and enjoyment of their local heritage and history in a fresh and entertaining way. In addition, they will be participating and engaging with theatres & artists thus generating more interest in local creative industries. It is hoped that this project will create further employment and other opportunities for those Dorset artists involved.

This project will take advantage (collaborate and partner with organisers and promotors to target) the increased number of visitors to Dorset for the water sports during the period of London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. An integrated marketing campaign will be in place to promote the production at key tourist venues across West Dorset.

Hoorah!

Posted on 20/11/2011

Our first funder has started the ball rolling - fantastic. Thank you Susan - you are officially an AsOne Theatre Angel! With my Artistic Director/Producer hat on I went to meet with the playwright Peter John Cooper to set deadlines and forward plan for casting and our usual public play-reading to develop our script when we open the floor to feedback and with forms for more objective - boxing-gloves off comments! This enables us to listen, digest and seeds sown take the script from third to final draft. Research and play structure in place - once the funding is OK'd we then are able to go full-steam ahead! Fund-raising is at its height with bids going forward to ACE and District Councils early December. The Mary Anning Project is on track. Peter is also a highly experienced and wonderful director - he directed our last comission from him; he cleverly send his writer's head to the pub - so the actors never feel self-concious when exploring the work and making comments. I have never met a creative less defensive or more open to ideas. I also know that the talented and experienced designer of our last three touring plays is on-board again. Annette Sumption has a fab CV, working with the best. She is a marvel at designing our set to fit into a Saphira, yet create an environment that along with creative and talented actors takes the audience on a magical journey. Wonderfully exciting, scary, fulfilling and exhausting times.

Eyes on the Jurassic Coast

Posted on 17/11/2011

Its a difficult year 2011/12 but AsOne Theatre is still touring, and with new writing which is brilliant, brave, bolshi and bananas! It would be so much easier/commercial and remunerative to adapt a nice well known novel that has been a successful film and set it to music! It does seem to be what the theatre's are hedging their bets with. Our plays are stories out of our beloved Dorset, about its people, heart, desires, achievements, hardships, passions and quirky uniqueness. What better! So please help us on our Jurassic Journey with AsOne's Mary Anning Project; The Cabinet Maker's Daughter who as one of Dorset's incredible daughters did so much to make the county, and especially Lyme Regis and Charmouth what it is today. Anything you can spare will help us tell another remarkable story from this beautiful part of the world, in a year when with the Olympics all eyes will looking this way!

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Susan Grant 50
Trisha 20
KayC 5
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