Shows at Takeoff Festival
The following companies performed at Takeoff Festival 2010.
Oily Cart (England)
Drum
6 months - 2 yearsListen to the gentle rhythm of the big bass drum and watch the shadows dancing on the surface of the small drums in this multi-sensory adventure.
La Società della Civetta (Italy)
Droplets
1 - 6 yearsGoccioline (Droplets) is a performance about water as an essential resource not to be wasted, but to be valued and loved. The dramatisation, based on words and sounds, unravels throughout a journey from the Western world to Africa, in search of enchantment and magic.
Tell Tale Hearts (England)
From Here to There
18 months - 4 yearsLooking at the dynamics of how young children play, both alone and together, this production brings to life some of the humour, pathos and ridiculousness of bridging two separate worlds with all the problems and hiccups that entails.
Catherine Wheels (Scotland)
White
2 - 4 yearsCome with us into the sparkling world of White where everything is bright and new. It gleams, dazzles and shines in the night. But someone has to keep it that way and there’s a problem. All anyone can think about in this white world is red... and yellow... and green... and blue...
Theatre Hullabaloo (England)
The Night Pirates
3 - 5 yearsWhen dark shadows come stealing down Tom’s bedroom walls he thinks it might be monsters or ogres or trolls. But Tom’s not afraid, for he’s a brave little boy, so he peeps out of the window and what should he see but PIRATES. Stranger still, they’re GIRL PIRATES, stealing the font of his house.
M6 Theatre Company (England)
Sunflowers and Sheds
5 - 8 yearsOn the allotments down by the railway, Frank’s peaceful routine is turned upside down by the arrival of lively Isabella and her chickens on the neighbouring plot. Through the changing seasons, the seeds of friendship grow side by side with the raspberries, runner beans, memories and dreams.
Teatro Munganga (The Netherlands)
Mimo
6 years +Mimo is an old man whose head is bursting with memories. They are very intrusive, they jump, jiggle and dance in his chaotic mind. They made him laugh and cry. Mimo decides to go travelling. Can he finally find peace and fall into an eternal sleep?
Tangere Arts (England)
Tin Soldier
7 years +Join our steadfast Tin Soldier on a magical, musical journey as he’s chased by an evil goblin, threatened by a monstrous rat and swallowed by an enormous fish whilst travelling helter-skelter towards his appointment with destiny.
Theatre Centre (England)
The Day The Waters Came
13 years +It’s summer 2005. Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand, sometimes the throat, and leads you through her landscape the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing.
