Knock, Knock! Who's There?

Knock, Knock! Who's There? sees Polyglot Theatre working closely with students from Mahogany Rise Primary School to develop an interactive multi-artform installation exploring the theme of transition as it resonates with children entering and leaving primary school.

The idea of transition – moving from place to place, whether in geography or in your mind – is a powerful one. It involves change and invokes fear, excitement, anticipation and trepidation.  This project will foster connection between two distinct age groups; the youngest and the oldest in the school; finding similarities in their feelings and exploring their dreams, fears, challenges and hopes through photography, animation and three dimensional installation art.

Polyglot artists will spend May to September 2012 at the school. The first half will be spent eliciting ideas and responses to materials, talking and listening in groups and one-on-one, setting up exercises that start each day across the whole school, collecting information, drawings and art works, exploring physical play and performative styles.  The creative process follows the impulses of the children. The second half of time spent will be creating the final plan, making the elements of the work, finessing the images and animation and setting up the aesthetic framework for two installation outcomes.

One presentation will occur at the school, followed shortly by another presentation for the general public at Frankston Arts Centre.