Current Productions

A Family Cookbook (coming soon!)

by Mike Kenny

Ingredients:

1 x step dad who likes music

1 x step mum who likes singing

1 x small silent son

1 x loud bossy daughter

Recipe:

Stir all of the ingredients together, add some spice and a pinch of humour, and leave to bake for several hours.

A Family Cook Book explores family restructuring in a light, insightful and entertaining script by Mike Kenny, the UK's leading playwright for children.  Mike is the recipient of numerous awards and was included in the Independent on Sunday's top 10 Living UK playwrights.  His plays are performed regularly all over the world.

We are delighted to bring this insightful play to local and regional schools.  This new play uses physical theatre, comedy and music to follow the story of Dermot and Dolores as they are thrown together in a new family when their parents remarry.

This production is supported with full educational materials and national curriculum resources to help make A Family Cook Book an essential ingredient for any primary school wanting to help pupils approach their lives in a positive and constructive way.

Touring:  28th February- 10th April 2011

Designed for Key Stage 2

Maximum audience 120

1 hour running time

£395 for a single show, second show £195

To book, call Jemma on 01793 614864 or email bookings@sstyp.co.uk

Bob, the Man on the Moon

based on the book 'Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram

Bob has a very special job- he looks after the moon.  He knows almost everything there is to know about it.  But there's one thing he's blissfully unaware of: ALIENS!

We have teamed up with Travelling Light Theatre Company to create a funny and delightful new show for young children aged 3+ and their families, inspired by the hugely popular, award-winning book by Simon Bartram.   Travelling Light also specialise in creating theatre for young audiences.  Touring to arts venues and schools April- July 2010. 

To find out more about the productions check out our Bob Zone:

www.sixthsensetyp.co.uk/Bobzone

To find out more about Travelling Light visit:

www.travellinglighttheatre.org.uk

Reviews:

'In this beguiling, must-see show for very young children, with producers Travelling Light and Sixth Sense at mission control, Simon Bartram's best-selling picture book veritably zooms off the page and touches down lightly on to the stage - a perfect landing that is largely due to a stellar alignment in the creative team. Designer Hayley Grindle conjures a sense of simple wonderment with her set full of containers: galvanised dustbins stuffed with space gear and concealed aliens, along with a tiny version of Bob's house complete with sliding drawers. And then there's Frank Wurzinger. Frank plays Bob with a trace of German accent and more than a touch of OCD – Bob, who keeps the moon vacuumed (and TIDY!) like a space-age ‘Little Prince', and who likes to have things lined up – loads of recognition points here for slightly obsessive tots and their long-suffering parents. Frank is a clown with great presence and timing who can whip his young audience into a frenzy and then have them mouse-still again in seconds, without a whiff of condescension. If you missed ‘Bob' in Bath , you can catch him on his return orbit at The Brewery in Bristol from 2-6 June: book soon, because tickets will go like space cakes'. (Rina Vergano ****, Venue Magazine)

'Great fun for the very young'.  (Jeremy Brien, The Stage)

Where you can see Bob, the Man on the Moon:

3rd April 2010

Polka Theatre, Wimbledon

www.polkatheatre.com

8th- 11th April 2010

Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham   

www.lakesidearts.org.uk

15th- 18th April 2010

the egg, Bath Theatre Royal 

www.theatreroyal.org.uk/the-egg

24th April 2010

The Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford

www.oxfordplayhouse.com

1st May 2010

Stratford Circus, London

www.stratford-circus.com

2nd May 2010

Artsdepot, London

www.artsdepot.co.uk

5th May 2010

Arts Centre, Swindon

www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk

8th May 2010

Croydon Clocktower

www.croydonclocktower.org.uk

9th May 2010

Trestle Arts Base, St Albans

www.trestle.org.uk

14th- 15th May 2010

Salisbury Playhouse

www.salisburyplayhouse.com

20th May 2010

Redbridge Drama Centre, London

www.redbridgedramacentre.co.uk

22nd May 2010

Lighthouse, Poole

www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

2nd- 6th June 2010

Tobacco Factory, Bristol

www.tobaccofactorytheatre.com

9th- 13th June 2010

The Spark Children's Arts Festival, Leicester

www.sparkfestival.co.uk

15th June 2010

York Theatre Royal

www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

17th-19th June 2010

Warwick Arts Centre

www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

20th June 2010

The Civic, Barnsley

www.barnsleycivic.co.uk

26th June 2010

The Broadway, Barking

www.thebroadwaybarking.com

3rd July 2010

Acorn Arts Centre, Penzance

www.acornartscentre.co.uk

11th July 2010

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre