'Finding Leaves for Soup' developed from a project in which nurserychildren were invited to go on a magical journey in Hensol Forest inSouth Glamorgan, where they met characters played by actors from theTheatr Iolo company.
The project was inspired by the writings of American early educatorVivian Gussin Paley, who studied the relationship between children'sstorytelling and their development.
The script uses exact phrases spoken by the three- to five-year-oldsfrom four nurseries in primary schools. Sarah Argent, director of TheatrIolo said, 'It wasn't our intention to use the children's words forplays, but once we acted out some of the children's stories we saw howpositively the children reacted to hearing their peers' voices.'
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