Match of the Day
Our final session with theatre maker Hatty – and what theatre she helped us make.
Five minutes spent studying a variety of old photographs of Leiston Works football teams, from the Boiler Shop Boys to the Munitionettes, and then the children were off into the Long Shop gallery, inventing their own scenes of employment at Garretts, from working in the pattern drawing office to arriving (late) to work – and the consequences of being locked out at the factory gates.
They added their own soundtracks to their tasks and then, to cap it off, rushed off to play football for the Works, with all the joy and excitement of a full-blown match.
We’ll be back after half term, when artists Jo Chapman and Ellie Rodwell will be encouraging the children to look at the Works through a different sort of football lens.
Is it a free kick? Or is it off side?
Leiston Works Football Team circa 1908
The workers celebrate a goal
Female football players pose for a photograph
From shop floor to football pitch
Boiler Shop 1917 - 1918
Exploring a qwerty keyboard
Testing the Work's whistle
Half time oranges - and grapes
An old fashioned adding machine
Admiring a munitionette
Discovering more about women workers at Garretts Engineering
‘I always thought art was sticking down and colouring but then Hatty taught us to do art in our heads and now I know that art can be all sorts of things.’
‘Hatty made me do things I didn't think I could do, because I'm a bit shy, and she's taught me that I don't have to be shy and that I can do all these things.’
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