HELP US WORKSHOP CAUTIONARY TALE IN LOCKDOWN!
Our Cautionary Tale online workshop has now finished, but please feel free to explore the selection of materials still available online.
Hi there.
I'm Rebecca, one of the writers of Cautionary Tale, a new British musical about finding joy in the darkest of places. For two years, me, Composer Rebecca Applin and Choreographer Mark Iles, have been working to make our dreams for this show come true and early this year, at last, it all seemed to be coming together. We had funding to stage a full workshop of the show so that we could finally see and hear the story we'd spent so long imagining. But then Covid-19 struck and two weeks before our workshop was scheduled, the UK entered lockdown and with Becky, our composer, falling prey to the virus there was no hope that we could go ahead with any of our plans.
Like everyone else, we've been feeling pretty hopeless and pretty scared about what the future might hold. Which is ironic, because Cautionary Tale is a story about how hard it is to be happy when your fears take over. We don't want to give in to feeling hopeless about the future or give up on our dreams for this show. We love this story and we want to share it with the world in any way we can. So we're asking you to help us.
We want as many people as possible to stage bits of the show at home and share them online using #CautionaryTaleMusical.
Every week for the next five weeks, we will release sheet music and backing tracks, Tik Tok choreography, character sketches and script extracts for you to download and play with at home. You can learn the songs and dances, act out a scene or get dressed up as a character. Then, we’re going to do a full read through of the show online accompanied by some of the best of your videos to help illustrate what the show might feel like.
We’re not expecting you to stage a full show at home - instead, we want you to find what excites you most about the show and record a creative response to that. It can be as modest or ambitious as you like - as long as you’re excited and inspired by what you show us.
JUST ANNOUNCED: We’ll be inviting the creators of the best video responses to be part of the live online reading in June 2020 and, once the pandemic is over, one lucky winner will be invited to join us to record the final demos for the show. Just make sure to post your video on social media using the hashtag #CautionaryTaleMusical by midnight on 13th June.
The first weekly package will be available to download here on 7th May. We'd love it if you'd record a section by yourself or with your friends and family, share it online using #CautionaryTaleMusical and help us make the show a reality.
Rebecca Atkinson-Lord x