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To see Venue review of Two Four Six Eight! at The Bristol Old Vic go to the bottom of this page.

For schools wishing to book Two Four Six Eight! see details below.

For theatre venues wishing to book please go to www.remprojects.com     Thank you.

Two Four Six Eight ! is currently on tour.

The egg Bath 17th & 19th Sept. 2011

The Theatre Chipping Norton 24th Sept. 2011

The Albany Deptford London 25th Sept. 2011

The Lighthouse Poole  8th Oct. 2011

Jacksons Lane London 23rd Oct. 2011

New Wolsey Ipswich 25th & 26th Oct. 2011

Gigglefest Birmingham 15th Feb.2012

Lyric Theatre London 3rd Mch. 2012

Half Moon Theatre London 24th Mch.2012

Arts Depot London 25th Mch.2012

Thornbury Arts Festival 28th April.2012

Marine Theatre Lyme Regis 29th April.2012

North Wall Oxford 11th July.2012

Two Four Six Eight! will tour to South West nurseries and schools and UK venues from 16th January to July 2012.

Shoofly Theatre are Katie Sykes and Craig Edwards.

We are highly experienced theatre makers and have been involved in a number of critically acclaimed productions with companies such as

Travelling Light   How Cold My Toes, Shadowplay, Lenny and Mother Savage,

The Bristol Old Vic  We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, Aesops Fables, Boing!, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Treasure Island,

The Tobacco Factory  The Ugly Duckling, Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves and Cinderella,

The egg  Around The World In 80 Days and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Shoofly Theatre has been formed to create exciting and affordable work to tour to schools and venues.

 

 

Two Four Six Eight! Is our current production.

Craig has been invited to his best friend's Birthday Party. There is an invite to read, presents to wrap, cakes to buy and a house to find. Who will explain the rules of Musical Chairs? Will there be enough balloons? 

To see video clip go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsvBAyeoopY

 

The ideal audience for this show is Nursery, Reception, Key Stage One Children and their teachers and focuses on Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy.

The aim of Two-Four-Six-Eight ! is to present the above in a theatrical, amusing and engaging way. 

The show can then be used as a teaching aid in follow up work.

Using the real life scenario of going to a Birthday Party the lone character of Craig endeavors to solve mathematical problems.

He explores amongst other things, Counting, Sharing, Adding, Subtraction and Number Representation.

For example wrapping a present involves an encounter with Shape, Space and Measures.

Reading the invitation to the party involves recognising Numbers as Labels and demonstrates using mathematical vocabulary and the ideas of Time and Distance.

We made this production with the support of St Mary Redcliffe Primary School in Bristol.

This is the feedback we received following the first performance of Two Four Six Eight! to Year One and their teachers.

 

“A fabulous production, which delighted and challenged our Year One Children. There was a great range of mathematical concepts from simple counting, counting in twos, sharing, patterns, shape, measure and place value. It really was fab!”  Jane Johnson (School Maths Co-ordinator.)

“Fantastic show, wonderful in its simplicity. Lovely music. Will definitely be a great learning stimulus in school.” Roisin Soares (Primary Teacher.)

“A real inspiration and stimulus for post performance classroom fun!”   Louise Brown (Primary Teacher.)

“The kids got so involved-it was lovely to watch it with them. I couldn’t stop smiling.”  Dayna Stephens (Primary Teacher.)

“Wonderful early years piece. Engaged Year One brilliantly. A good mix of comedy slapstick and number mix ups.” Sasha Duffy (Drama Teacher & Parent.)

“Just right for this age-they can relate to the story. Good dilemmas which the children will recognise.” Chris Williams (Primary Teacher.)

"Lovely show, witty, engaging, incredibly friendly and full of life. Sure to appeal to its target age group." Ali Robertson (Director Tobacco Factory Theatre.)

"The show was charming, quirky and very funny, the little boy next to me giggled all the way through it." Jude Merrill (Artistic Producer Travelling Light Theatre Co.)

"This is a rib-tickling little gem of a show. Craig and Katie have long been delighting Bristol with wonderful theatre for young people. When I saw Two Four Six Eight! the room was bursting with huge smiles. Children counting and laughing." Kate Yedigaroff (Producer Bristol Old Vic.)

South West Schools visited : Academy of Trinity Radstock, Avonmouth Primary, Bank Leaze Primary, Barton Hill Primary, Begbrook Primary, Bishop Rd Primary, Broomhill Infants, Burnbush Primary, Chester Park Infants, Compass Point, Easton Primary, Farmborough C of E Primary, Four Acres Primary, Hannah More Primary, Holy Cross Primary, Holymead Infants, Hopscotch Nursery, Jack & Jill Pre School Westbury On Trym, Little Mead Primary, Luckwell Primary, Overndale Primary, St. Bernards Primary, St. Francis Primary, St. John The Evangelist, St. Mary's Primary Radstock, St. Saviour's Nursey & Infant School, The Avenue School & Children's Centre Warminster, The Mead Community Primary Wingfield, Twerton Infant School, Waycroft Primary, Worlebury St. Paul's First School.

 

 

For performances in schools: Cost per show £ 175-00. For two performances on same day £ 300-00.

Recommended audience number up to 150.

Show running time 40 minutes. 

Space required for approx. 2 hours.

Performance area 4 m x 4m.

 

Performer Craig Edwards is in possession of a current CRB Enhanced Disclosure and Equity backed Public Liability Insurance.

 

To book this show contact us at  craigandkatie@blueyonder.co.uk  

 

 

Shoofly Theatre would like to thank Travelling Light, Kate Yedigaroff at The Bristol Old Vic, The Tobacco Factory, Rachel McNally and St. Mary Redcliffe Primary School for their support.

 

To view Craig's CV click on 

http://theatrebristol.net/craig-edwards

To view Katie's CV click on

http://theatrebristol.net/katie-sykes