ORACLE @ IAMS - 28 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. 

This week we were down to business; little did we know, the business would expand so much! Last week we had a beautiful family reunion, this week we saw the new family babies, although, they weren’t so much babies as they were grown kids with 10 times more energy. Luckily, me Tina and Ola got out alive.

We started, with early birds Leila and Turac being the first new faces to enter, siblings spent a bit of bonding time. More siblings came (old and new). We got settled down with a game of “Anyone who...” to learn more about each other, lone behold a few more new faces came, followed by the marvellous Ashley Grey with a couple of welcomed older students to sit in.... followed by a few new faces. By popular demand, we then started our Oracle Classic ‘Zip Zap Zoom’ building on our focus and energy. I’m not even lying to you.... MORE CAME!!! It’s safe to say I had considered whether or not it was a dream, I realised it wasn’t when I couldn’t magically make the room bigger for everyone, fortunately it wasn’t a nightmare either.... we got them to lie down as if they were sleeping next!!!!

Here, recapping on our theme of time and “I wish time could speed up!” the emphatic Ola set out just what our future masterpiece would be, for them all to imagine whilst lying down; it was quite impressive... obviously! Maybe lucky, maybe not, everyone still had tonnes too much energy to have fallen asleep whilst lying down, so we moved on to THE CREATION OF THE MASTERPIECE!!! Yes, our Kayne and Ashley’s helper (older student) Ola, started as the scientists and the group sculpted the spectacular opening to our play, through participation, loads of ideas and a scary amount of excitement. Working so well, we even got to work on a birthday scene after this, then we realised, there are now around 30 or so siblings in the IAMS Oracle Family alone, someone’s been getting busy.... going out doing workshops at schools. Who? You ask. NED!! The apparent celebrity known as Ned (the boss) came in; my ear drums almost burst from the energetic family reaction. Wow.  

Our family’s grown, we’ve made and casted a major part of our play, Tina’s stamina was tested when running up and down stairs to greet new members AND a celebrity graced us with their presence. There wasn’t anything anyone seemed to dislike. In fact, we should be quite afraid! Some of them, like new bro Cameron, wanted to fake a death a bit too much... Confidence grew within the group almost instantly, especially with the whole group being so welcoming, sadly a bit more when they knew they may be able to fake a death... seriously... But EVERYONE got into learning TWO other languages, all in one session, and having a bit of a sing song. No more will be said about this, you’ll just have to come and watch us perform it! One thing that was really interesting was the use of a beautifully designed prop and the ideas on how to use different props and audience interaction.

Yet again, everyone just wanted more time... I, personally, was a bit exhausted to be honest. Last week, the Oracle said the future looked Bright... It still does and that’s coming from a bigger Oracle!