Bigfoot love to undertake ambitious projects that really challenge excellence and achievement within school. We became involved in a World War II installation project with Cheltenham Bournside College, a specialist school with visual and performing arts status.
We worked with the schools to transform a school studio space in order to create ‘War Stories’ an authentic and multi sensory environment set in a Cheltenham village hall in 1942. Within the village hall were characters from the day coming together to celebrate an engagement, so actors devised their own script involving drama, song and dance.
Bigfoot brought their experience in the form of a director, who helped the actors bring truth and structure to their devised piece and a costume designer who dressed the actors in complete period costume. We also consulted with the heads of department on the over all look of the installation.
What was amazing about War Stories was the team work between school departments, students and outside professionals in order to make the project a success.
