ONCE UPON A TIME... MACHINE

Where would you want to go in a time machine and perhaps more to the point when? Would you go and see if dinosaurs were really as enormous as scientists say they were? Would you want to find out if Mary Queen of Scots was as charismatic as we are told? Or perhaps visit Dickens’s London and see if it was just as he described it?

What would happen if you just turned up somewhere in history completely unexpected? Would you be able to fit in quickly and not be noticed?

Once upon a time...machine is about perspective. It’s about how to try and look at history not from the vantage point of now, looking back, but to observe it from the point of view of the people who were there.

By simply setting the time co-ordinates on our time machine to just before some of the most famous historic moments (1065, 1313, 1602 for example) we hope to gain a little understanding as to why some dates are remembered so vividly and others are lost in the mist of time.

Once upon at time...machine is a storytelling project that will dramatise the lives of the people living through turning points in history. Each performance/workshop will be for an individual class and will be available for all classes from P1 through to P6 and are free of charge for schools in Edinburgh and the Lothians.

This project will involve close collaboration with primary school teachers to explore which historical subjects the pupils find particularly exciting and also just as importantly which they find dull or difficult to engage with.

Using this information, fictional historical characters will be created that will hopefully entertain and ideally inspire not only an interest in history but also the many other subjects that the past encompasses, such as science, literature and the Arts.

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