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The 2004 programme also included esteemed companies like Cas Public, Gruppe 38, Het Laagland, Handgemenge and Terra; find their production photos in the media gallery.
2004
Bank of Scotland Children’s International Theatre Festival
Since 1990, the Festival has programmed work by some of Europe’s most outstanding theatre companies.
Prestigious Danish company Gruppe 38’s production of A Sonatina was a re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood, in which the big bad wolf was played by a potato masher. A live hen was an essential part of the show, but they couldn’t bring their usual chicken over from Denmark.
So, former General Manager Tessa Rennie describes one of Imaginate’s strangest casting calls: “It was our job to find the chickens – and we had to have two female bantams because they weren’t allowed to work that many hours! Not only that, but we also had to have a cockerel to keep them happy, so we had a whole hen coop in the Garage Theatre.”
