National Theatre Wales and Wales Millennium Centre

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Directed by Nigel Jamieson

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Designed by Dan Potra

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As part of celebrations for the 100th birthday of Roald Dahl, I was asked to lead workshops for chidren, capturing their dreams and nightmares in jars, inspired by The BFG. Working from the initial brief by designer Dan Potra, I collected materials and made sample jars before holding workshops in libraries across Cardiff for children and their adults. In the week before the production I worked with students from Cardiff and Vale college to install the 3,000 jars into a site in Bute Park.

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The jars were all made from recyclable type 1 PET plastic.  I also visited car boot sales, recycling companies such as ReCreate and second hand internet sites to ensure that as many of the jar materials as possible had had a previous life before becoming a dream jar. 

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