I have often stated that children seem to love Louisa’s Walk and we love them! The change to a four term year here in Tasmania has made a difference to tourism operators and we, at Louisa’s Walk/Her Story have taken many families through our experiences in the last week or two. Most recently three families [...]
Anyone who has experienced Louisa’s Walk knows that the Rajah Quilt features in our story. The transportation journey that we make on the ship, The Rajah, is the very journey on which the Quilt was made. After our performance is over and we come out of character, we have a show- and -tell time (any [...]
I was doing some admin. on the computer a few weeks ago listening to R.N’s Music Show in the background, when I heard Katie Noonan’s distinctive voice. Katie visited Louisa’s Walk a couple of years ago when she was researching songs for her Love Song Circus. She was so moved by our story that she [...]
We have been so busy with a bumper season of Live History Productions. Louisa’s Walk and Her Story have never been so busy. This has been reflected in a distinct lack of blog posts! The busy season wasn’t helped by all of our female actors leaving during January and early February to go to other [...]
Two Grade five classes from St Michael’s Collegiate School made a visit to Louisa’ s Walk yesterday. This is the second time their teacher, Meg Johnson, has brought her current year students to experience our Primary School version of Louisa’s Walk. We were delighted, on arriving at the bottom car park of the Cascades Gardens, [...]
When it comes to ghosts, are you an ardent believer or a sceptic? About a month ago, I was walking along Degraves Street (where the Cascades Female Factory is sited) in my Louisa’s Walk costume, when a young man approached me and asked if I knew anything about the site? Well just a bit! He [...]
We often say that Louisa’s Walk is suitable for a diverse range of age groups but for under-fives it can be a little over their heads. Whilst I am not pretending that this cute baby understood a word he certainly stole the Show!
Sometimes Louisa’s Walk feels more like a wildlife park tour! As we walk back up through the lovely Cascade Gardens, the main story is told and it’s more of a guided tour as we return our visitors to their cars outside the Cascade Brewery. Many stop and take photos as the view looking back up [...]
It seems spooky that on this day, forty six years ago, Tasmania was fighting the biggest bush fire in living memory with a loss of sixty two lives and thirteen hundred houses and, today on that anniversary, we fight fires again. We took Her Story and Louisa’s Walk out today but it was under a [...]
The Louisa’s Walk actors are very skilled at involving children, during the performance, to keep them engaged and we take every opportunity we can to draw them further into the story. One of these places is during the Chapel scene when The Doctor is explaining what goes on there: “At five o’clock the bell is [...]
