Come down to one of the two shows completing our second year of Tall Tales. This year we have been working with the book ‘100% Wolf’ by Jayne Lyons and in four months we have worked with young people from Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton to create another outstanding show to captivate you – The Audience!
Don’t miss out on your chance to see and hear a show that combines humour, horror, music and visual treats to tell the story of Freddy the young werewolf, struggling to deal with some great expectations.
100% Wolf is the second show from High Peak Community Arts’ project Tall Tales, working in music and theatre with young people from Buxton & Glossop. The story comes from the book of the same name by Jayne Lyons, and takes us to the world of the werewolves who live among us. This first stage production tells the whirlwind tale of Freddy as he comes of age and transforms into a wolf for the first time. All does not go according to plan when it turns out Freddy is not like the rest of his family. Can he overcome his fears and redefine what makes him and his kind 100% Wolf?
The show takes to the stage at the Geoffrey Allen Centre, Gamesley at 5pm on 7th August and at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton at 7.30pm on 9th August. The project has been funded by the Foundation for Youth Music and Arts Council England and more than 50 local young people have worked with professional musicians, artists and theatre makers since April to create the music and material for the performance.
In weekly workshops in Gamesley, Glossop and Fairfield, Buxton they have worked with instrumentalist and composer, Andy Smith, theatre maker, Paul Hine, and a host of other musicians with skills in vocals, digital music, song writing and instrumental playing. They have also worked with visual artist, Katy McCall and digital artist, Andrea Pazos to develop visual ideas for the final staging. Now the two groups will meet in an 8 day summer school to put all their ideas together and form the young company who will perform on 7th and 9th August. Audiences can expect a live band, singing, dance and drama, with a distinctive set and live projections to conjure up the world of a werewolf dynasty!
More information about the project and video clips from the workshops are available at www.highpeakarts.org, or find High Peak Community Arts on Facebook and Twitter (@HighPeakComArts).
Performances will be:
5pm, 7th August, Geoffrey Allen Centre, Winster Mews, Gamesley, SK13 0LU; Tickets £3 (£1 concessions), available from Gamesley Community Café, or on the door.
7.30pm, 9th August, Pavilion Arts Centre, St John’s Road, Buxton, SK17 6XN; Tickets £4 (£3 concessions), available from Buxton Opera House box office 01298 72190
More than 35 young people from the two estates have taken part, with 20 coming together for the 
“I think my favourite session was the part where, me Ruby and Jack and Jess and her friend, we did like a song and it’s got like a hand clap in it, like a little beat with our hands, and we did it all ourselves with a bit of help from Caro, and then like we keep on getting the tune wrong, but then we soon got used to it, and then we had to perform it to everyone – and we were just like facing the table to not look at everyone, and some people was just videoing each group, and like yeah it was okay and so we were trying to think of a part for where Ruby could play flute in, but it didn’t actually quite fit…”
“I remember that I worked with Kristian, I brought my violin and we made all noises and made sounds, so when we did that, he put them on this cardboard piece attached to this wire, so when we press it it plays our sound we made.”
