Lost Thing

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Ben Wright’s staging tells the confused story gently, and as clearly as it can. The cast, all amplified, mixes opera and musical theatre voices, with Joel Brown engaging as Shaun, the central figure. Conducted by Timothy Burke, Maxwell’s score, full of cycles and repetitions, perks up with the little arias for Victoria Oruwari and Bethan Langford, and there’s a nice bossanova about the hell of filling in forms, but too much of it is static and slow, content to accompany the narration when it could be telling the story. The Lost Thing was the theme for the 2006 Chookahs! Kids Festival at The Arts Centre [28] in Melbourne, with many different activities based on concepts from the book. Any real meaning is left to the reader to find for themselves, rather than overtly stated or implied, with an encouragement towards a close visual reading against quite minimalist text. Why are the colours limited to industrial greys and browns? Why are there pieces of physics, algebra and calculus text-books framing every scene, and text written by hand on scraps of lined paper? Why do all the houses look the same, why is everything draped in shadow, what are those images of clouds about? What is that strange place glimpsed through a doorway at the end of an anonymous alley? What is the lost thing? After identifying the textual elements that relate to particular themes, students can be guided in their interpretation by being asked to:

Un ragazzo occhialuto e spettinato nota una strana creatura sulla spiaggia. Una cosa strana, una specie di teiera con i tentacoli. Sembra spaesata, o forse solamente abbandonata. E si lascia avvicinare senza timore dal ragazzo che decide di cercarne il proprietario. The Lost Thing has also been adapted as a play by the Jigsaw Theatre Company, [27] a youth theatre company in Canberra. This was the main event for the National Gallery of Australia's Children Festival ( Canberra) and at the Chookahs! Kids Festival ( Melbourne) in 2006.Students select a theme The Lost Thing explores that they would like to construct their own picture book around. These may include (but not limited to) conformity, dystopia/utopia, creativity, individuality, bureaucracy, modern life, art, friendship or belonging. Different teachers may have placed varying degrees of emphasis upon these themes during the study so some guidance to students will be appropriate. 2. Elements of construction Action to action: a single subject (whether person, animal or thing) is depicted in a sequence of actions to represent a longer, overall scene; Shaun Tan (born 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include The Red Tree and The Arrival. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. [1] The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. [2] and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. [3] The Arrival. Images from this book were projected during a performance by the Australian Chamber Orchestra of conductor Richard Tognetti's arrangement of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 [25]

Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." [4] Ask students what they think can be revealed about the society in which the action takes place. Guiding questions can be useful here, for instance: what might people find important or unimportant in this society? What is missing from this world (according to this image)? Would you like to go on a holiday to here? Why not? Responses should be recorded under the heading “Social setting”. Talk about other images that were created in the minds-eye when you read the story aloud. What do they imagine the narrator of the story looks like? Literature circleYear 7: (ACELA1782) (ACELA1763) (ACELT1619) (ACELT1620) (ACELT1803) (ACELY1804) (ACELY1722) (ACELY1724) (EN4-1A) (EN4-3B) (EN4-8D) (EN4-2A) (EN4-5C) (EN4-6C) The Lost Thing received an Honourable Mention at the Bologna International Book Fair, Italy and an honourable mention at the CBCA Awards. In 2020, The Lost Thing won the Phoenix Award in the US, given twenty years later to a book that did not win a major award at the time of publication. Original illustrations from the book have been exhibited at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo and eslewhere in Japan, Germany, Sweden and the UK.