Stories in Half
- Age
- 18 months – 3 years
- Running time
- 30 minutes
- Language
- Spoken text, in English
- Cast
- 3 performers
- Company on tour
- [[N]]
- Audience
- [[capacity]]
- Space
- [[min dimensions]]
- Get-in
- [[hours]]
- Get-out
- [[hours]]
- First performed
- December 2024
Booking
For festivals, venues, schools and anganwadis.
The plays tour light. They have been made to work in a proscenium house, in a studio, and on the floor of an ordinary room with the curtains drawn — we have performed in all three.
The three plays at a glance
Work for children from eighteen months to five years.
| Detail | Stories in Half | Dinner is at 8 | Bends & Flows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material | Loom and thread | Steel utensils | Kaala chana |
| Age | 18 months – 3 years | 3 – 5 years | 18 months – 3 years |
| Running time | 30 minutes | 28 minutes | 28 minutes |
| Language | Spoken text, in English | Non-verbal | Non-verbal |
| Cast | 3 performers | 2 performers | 2 performers |
| Company on tour | [[N]] | 5 in all | 5 in all |
| Audience | [[capacity]] | 20–25 children, one adult each | 20–25 children, one adult each |
| Space | [[min dimensions]] | A suitable even floor | [[min dimensions]] |
| Get-in | [[hours]] | 3–5 hours | 7 hours |
| Get-out | [[hours]] | 1 hour | 1 hour |
| First performed | 2024 | 2016 | 2012 |
Dinner is at 8
- Age
- 3 – 5 years
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Language
- Non-verbal
- Cast
- 2 performers
- Company on tour
- 5 in all
- Audience
- 20–25 children, one adult each
- Space
- A suitable even floor
- Get-in
- 3–5 hours
- Get-out
- 1 hour
- First performed
- July 2016
Bends & Flows
- Age
- 18 months – 3 years
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Language
- Non-verbal
- Cast
- 2 performers
- Company on tour
- 5 in all
- Audience
- 20–25 children, one adult each
- Space
- [[min dimensions]]
- Get-in
- 7 hours
- Get-out
- 1 hour
- First performed
- July 2012
Full specifications, including lighting, are on each play's page.
Download the touring pack [[PDF to come — see backlog]]
What we ask of a room
The staging conditions are not preferences.
This work is made for an audience that has not experienced theatre before and does not behave like a general theatre audience. The conditions below are what makes the plays work at all.
Audience size
Twenty to twenty-five children at a time, each accompanied by one parent or guardian, seated close to the playing area. We ask that only children within the play's age band attend.
Seating
On the floor, close. No raked seating, no rows of chairs for the children.
After the play
The children are invited into the performance area to handle the material. We treat this as their feedback on the play, and ask for it to be scheduled in rather than cleared away.
The floor
Even, clean and safe to sit on. Kaala chana and steel end up across it.
Per day
At most three performances in a day, for any of the plays.
Lighting
Each play has a desirable lighting scenario, and all three are flexible — from a full rig to almost none. We will match what your room can do.
Where fees are a barrier
Write to us anyway.
We actively seek funding to bring the work to children whose settings cannot meet travel, accommodation or performance costs. If that is you, the conversation starts with the conversation — not with a budget.
Tell us who the children are, where you are, and what you have. We will tell you honestly whether we can find a way.
Write to us with who the children are, where you are, and what your room is like. We reply to everything.