Computer Animation Arts

Giant wonderful monster puppets!

March 5th at Comberton Village College, located just outside of Cambridge, represented the final set of performances for the ACT collaboration of Benjamin Britten's charming one-act opera, Noye's Fludde. Based off Middle Age texts known as the Chester Mystery Plays, and first performed in 1958, Noye's Fludde is a dramatic retelling of the story of Noah, intended by Britten to be performed by professional and amateur performers as well as school children who make up the ark of animals. As you may well know, Computer Animation Arts   and   kite-maker,   Karl Longbottom   produced numerous props for the performance, while costumes were designed and made by the staff and students of Creative Arts For Theatre & Film . Once again the cast and crew were joined by the Orchestre de Picardie and conductor, Arie van Beek . After the grandeur of the Cirque Jules Verne , the Comberton Village College sports hall provided a much more intimate venue, but no less ideal...

On the evening of the 5th March 2015, the sports hall of the Comberton Village College , Cambridge was colonised by a riotous carnival of animals, as the Orchestre de Picardie's production of Benjamin Britten's opera  Noye's Fludde crossed the channel for its final two performances.  Loyal followers of the Computer Animation Arts' blog will know all about our course's involvement with this production, which saw us commissioned to visualise its specialist props. First performed at the Cirque Jules Verne, Amiens , these final UK-based performances also mark the final phase of the ACT project - a series of EU-funded creative collaborations that have seen our students, staff and alumni work together to create some truly transformative outcomes .   Noye's Fludde - Programme Animator, artist, photographer and CAA alumnus, Tom Beg accompanied me to the Cambridge performance to ensure we captured Noye's Fludde's  last hurrah in all its ...