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the inƒorming perƒorming company
is Edmund Pegge and Richard Potter. Edmund, is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, has been a professional actor for many years in Australia, Britain and America. Richard is a graduate of Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, with a professional career in teaching, broadcasting, journalism, acting and writing, in Australia and Europe. the inƒorming perƒorming company bring a range of skills to develop aural and oral literacy and creative thinking and writing They use their skills and expertise in performance of literature and in writing to facilitate the development of creative writing through poetry. They have worked in schools in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK - together and individually in over 180 schools. Edmund has also worked in many schools in his early work with the Young Elizabethan Players, and has conducted workshops based on his book, How to Enjoy Reading Aloud to young children (which has sold of 30,00 copies) in Libraries all over the UK. Richard has worked widely as a teacher and consultant in a large number of schools. This constitutes a remarkable and exceptional body of experience and breadth of knowledge of education environments. “There must have been a moment when a cave-dweller first understood that a mark chipped on stone could signify a meaning, and writing was born. Or when he raised his voice in a particular way, and song was born. For some years now Ed Pegge and Richard Potter have been seeking, and igniting a similar moment in the lives of school children. It is the moment when the mightiness of the spoken word is made known to them, and the joy inherent in exploring it enraptures their young minds. After that moment, they learn more easily to read, and they write, and read aloud, and recite, and act and sing with pleasure. Unlocking that moment has raised them out of cave man condition into the beginnings of civilisation and humanist enlightenment. Pegge and Potter believe that children’s response to poetry goes back to the preverbal years of babies, whose experimental burblings are a search, through rhythm and sound, for meaning. Their school room engagements, using Banjo Paterson, Dylan Thomas, Yevtushenko, Mary Gilmour, Kenneth Slessor and, wonderfully, poems composed by children themselves, have accelerated literacy in even the mentally challenged, and love of reading everywhere. Spoken English becomes a new playground, its cadenced rhymes new stairways, new Everests to conquer. And the wonder on small faces of hearing their own words read, and sung, by formidable theatrical performers, and there after performing themselves, is a sea change into new being worth witnessing.” Bob Ellis In recent years great leaps have been made in our understanding intelligence, mental processes and the nature of human learning and creativity. Edmund & Richard set out to use these understandings to develop and explore Poetic Thinking, and create ways of tapping into the Creative Subconscious. This relates directly to language development, creative writing and performance, but goes much further. Poetic Thinking has application in all areas of intelligence and learning. There has never been a more important time for developing creativity in Education. Ricjard and Edmund have twice been short listed for the South Australian Arts and Education Ministers' Arts Educator of the Year Award. They have appeared a number of times in the Adelaide Fringe Festival. They were invited to perform and speak at the inaugural Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2001and have twice (2002, 2003) been the key note presenters at the Penola Writers Festival. |
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