Story Packages:

Interactive Storytelling

You’ve got a group of excited seven year olds eagerly watching your every move, no book to read from, no story seared into your brain … So how do Wizard Stories create each tale?

Our storytellers gather ideas from each group, then, using improvisational and characterisation skills, original music, sound, maybe an unusual object, tell the story with the audiences input guiding the journey. At key points, either moments of heightened conflict, key moments of choice, the storyteller pauses and asks the group to determine what happens next. Once the teller has gathered further information the story resumes. This process thus continues until the story has reached its conclusion.

The interactive nature of Wizard’s storytelling enables the storyteller to embrace ethnic diversity, people with disabilities, as participants contribute directly to the narrative, enabling them to draw from their own cultural themes, images and personal experiences and issues. Similarly the storyteller can weave set educational themes into the story, which can be determined by class teachers before each classes visit. Wizard will discuss each class’s individual needs at the time of booking.

Appropriate Key Stages: All Key Stages.

Size of Group: Ideally class size groups.

Duration: We can perform a maximum of four performances a day. Each performance lasts approximately one hour.

“The children had great interaction with the plot, the storytellers used class names to personalise the story, thank you for another great set of performances. Well worth it!”

Samantha Larke, Cambell Junior School – London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.