Jacqui Martin

Hey 1/2 Patton class!
We’re so glad you guys enjoyed the show!
Thank you so much for your great questions and here are all of our answers for you:

Could you please remind us of your names?
Kyle (Quasimodo), Georgie (Esmerelda), Nicola (Hugo and Jiacomo), Dan (Phoebus and Father Tourangeau), Lydia (Mamma Frill and Djali) and Lachie…[Read more]

We’ve been to 5 different schools in Tassie this year, but we’d love to go to heaps more! We love coming to see you in Tasmania 🙂

The song is called Fly Away. It is an Alpha Shows Original song!
Do you like it?

Hey Keira!
Yeah I remember! Lots of different things have inspired us to perform. Watching other people doing what they love is very inspiring. It’s also a pretty special feeling when you perform for people for the first time. For me personally, I loved that I could use my voice or performing to help people feel something! I especially love…[Read more]

Hi Matilda, Bridget and Georgie!
We decide what people are going to play after we see them audition. So they read a bit of script and sing for us and we decide which part they might suit after that!

The cast of King Arthur are:
Patrick (who played Arthur)
Lachie (Lancelot)
Megan (Guinevere)
Nicola (Katoka & Banshee)
Jack (Merlin & Murky) and
Jacqui (Morgana & Lady of the Lake)

Yes, we can sometimes cry for real, but we use different techniques to connect to our emotions. We don’t want to use something that makes us really sad, that we won’t be able to get through in the show, because that’s not safe for us to deal with in the middle of the show. We save that emotional processing for later usually. Most of the actors…[Read more]

Hi Archie,
All of our actors have different amounts of experience. Some of us had done shows and performances with our schools. Some of us studied acting, singing and dancing outside of school as we were growing up. Some of us did stand up comedy. Some of us studied performing at university or at a specific performing arts school after high…[Read more]

Hi Kade,
We rehearsed the show for 6 days before we start performing the show at schools! We rehearse for about 8 hours and go through a lot in those 6 days. We have to learn all of the blocking (where we stand on stage), the dance and fight choreography, the set changes, costume changes and also all of the sound and lighting that happens in the…[Read more]

Hi Havanah,
The set was made and painted by a man named Phil. There are lots of parts to the set, but it’s basically just painted pieces of wood that we put together. We also have quite a few large paintings on canvas that we velcro on to the set, so when the set was closed there were people putting up different paintings behind it.
We can do it…[Read more]

Hi Charlie,
The boat was made by the person who made and painted all of our set. His name is Phil and he did an awesome job of making the boat, but it’s actually only the bit you can see at the front, on the back of it, it is all open and there is a ledge for the actors to stand on. We did it like that so that we could pack it in to our truck 🙂

That’s awesome!

Hi Ollie,
The sea witch was wearing a wig for the show. I played the sea witch and Nanny Neptune and I kept swapping wigs for my different characters 🙂

Hey Jacob!
We get our swords from the guy who teaches us how to use them. His name is Kyle Rowling and he runs The Action Acting Academy in Sydney. He finds all of the right weapons for us to use, and teaches us how to use them all properly.

Hi Mercia,
We have a few things we use for the water. We have some silk material that we wave around in the storm and then we use our painted sets, and fog and lighting effects to give the storm its full effect!

Hi Asha,
We have all been through our different stages of nerves in performing. It’s very natural, and we’re also very accepting of the fact that it’s a natural part of being a performer. For all of us, we’ve realised in some way or another that we enjoyed other things about performing so we were able to work through our nerves and being…[Read more]