Booking
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
Each play travels on its own, but our aim is to stage all three together, at theatre venues, schools and other spaces where toddlers can gather, across the country. Only then, we believe, can theatre for toddlers arrive as a movement here.
| 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 | 6 in all | 5 in all | 5 in all |
| Audience | 20–25 children, one adult each | 20–25 children, one adult each | 20–25 children, one adult each |
| Space | 25 × 25 ft | 25 × 25 ft | 25 × 25 ft |
| Get-in | 3–5 hours | 3–5 hours | 3–5 hours |
| Get-out | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour |
| First performed | 2024 | 2016 | 2012 |
Full specifications, including lighting, are on each play's page.
What we ask of a room
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.
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.
On the floor, close. No raked seating, no rows of chairs for the children.
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.
Even, clean and safe to sit on. Kaala chana and steel end up across it.
At most three performances in a day, for any of the plays.
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
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.
Tell us who the children are, where you are, and what your room is like. We reply to everything.