ORACLE @ IAMS - 21 JANUARY 12

Hi I’m Corey. P. I’m 16 years old and a member of Islington Community Theatre (who run the Oracle Project). I’m also working as the Project Assistant for the IAMS Oracle.

Raring to go, on our second week at the next level as theatre makers, it was a truly beautiful reunion (having seen all the welcomed faces that sadly missed last week) and it was definitely great for the up and coming masterpiece of an IAMS Oracle show! We came eager, to start, talking about our looming performance in March and how we’re going to make it AMAZING... obviously. Adding to our pre-existing timeline, each of us was made fully up to date on all that we may, or may not, have missed, Zara and Eve giving a quite impressive speech on the subject. With our sights set on the deadline, we were ready: we got stuck into the second game ever, as a company, of ‘Bomb and Shield’. More popular than before, the explosion of energy was almost overwhelming. This actually grew!! We went straight into two IAMS Oracle classics: ‘Zip zap zoom’, for focus and energy, and ‘Splat’, for focus and a bit more energy.... infectious energy. Everyone was so focused and ready to win, Eve getting to the final in BOTH ‘Splat’ and ‘Zip zap zoom’, but eventually losing out to Kane in ‘Zip’ and Alex in ‘Splat’; but hey, we’re all winners!!

We came Prepared. Having last week worked on the theme “I wish time could speed up!”, we continued this. Splitting everyone into families (Jordanne getting her ‘Speedos’ back!!), we each saw families of the different roles, carried over from last week, work together: the musicians worked with the physical actors; the soundscape/ environment creators worked with the Narrators. It was great seeing how things and our family are developing towards our...looming masterpiece... I guess we’re just all multi-talented!

Everyone really enjoyed all of the warm up activities, especially ‘Splat’ where the group seemed a bit too good at their dramatic deaths, fortunately these were fake, no one died. We just all wished we had a LONGER Session to really build on our performances. I guess time just flies, what are the Consequences of this? That’s something you might just have to wait to see in March!!!The session gave us some great ideas for our show. One thing that was really effective was the transition we saw between seeing music telling the physical actors’ story, then spoken narration being supported by a well thought out soundscape. Next week, Masterpiece: week 3! As if that’s not enough, what family will get the most House points? Finally, to answer last week’s question, together again, the Oracle says.... The New Year looks bright....