Day 2!
Saw Rawums (:) this morning from a German company that clearly doesn’t subscribe to the belief that young children have minute attention spans and therefore theatre made for them has to be snappy, bright and brash. Their work was delicate, gentle, funny and magical with not a primary colour in sight. the audience of four year olds was rapt. Spoke afterwards to an artist whose opera for the under twos is currently touring and who has funding for another. Would love to bring that to our youngest audience.
Another piece from Scotland today was One Thousand Paper Cranes set in Japan some years after the A bomb attacks. It dealt with friendship, tragedy and loss in a way that was moving, energetic and funny. If I can link up with the company later, that might be heading south too.
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