Young Audiences – Summerhall – Open Minds Open Doors https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:33:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 How to Be a Kid https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/how-to-be-a-kid/ Fri, 05 May 2017 01:05:08 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=24024 Can you help Molly learn how to be a kid again? A larger-than-life story of family, friends and fitting in from Sarah McDonald-Hughes. Warning: contains dancing, chocolate cake and an epic car chase.

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]]> Arm – Mireille & Mathieu https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/arm-mireille-mathieu/ Thu, 04 May 2017 08:05:41 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23868 Gentle, poetic, cruel or comical; Mireille & Mathieu unpack their paraphernalia at a flea-market. Objects turn out to be bursting with stories where in this happy delirium of exploration and absurd experiments, nothing’s taken seriously.

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]]> Nothing https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/nothing/ Thu, 04 May 2017 08:05:23 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23884 Pierre-Anthon realizes one day that nothing matters and therefore nothing is worth doing. To prove him wrong, his classmates begin piling things of meaning. And the more painful the sacrifice is, the more meaning it has... right?

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]]> Jihan’s Smile https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/jihans-smile/ Thu, 04 May 2017 08:05:11 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23879 Jihan is an ordinary child who woke up one day to discover she lost her smile. The sun set, the moon disappeared, everything lost its colour, cold spread throughout the town. Jihan needs to find her smile again.

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]]> Taiwan Season: The Backyard Story https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/taiwan-season-the-backyard-story/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:33 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23708 Let your imagination run as clothes on a washing line are brought to life by a magic balloon in a fusion of object theatre, contemporary and traditional puppet arts.

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]]> Start Swimming https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/start-swimming/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:31 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23704 A Young Vic Taking Part Production. It’s small versus big. It’s pressures of the future. It’s everything being stacked against you and all options feeling equally terrible. One step away from disaster, there’s only one instruction: start swimming.

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]]> No Show https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/no-show/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:29 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23701 New contemporary all-female circus from award-winning company. No Show joyously and heartbreakingly reveals what lies hidden beneath the showmanship. There will be desperate attempts and heroic failures. For anyone who has tried, failed and failed better.

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]]> Eaten https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/eaten/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:24 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23691 What if your food started talking back? Meet Lionel the lion. He’s just eaten a human called Mamoru for lunch. Eaten invites children and grown-ups to the fascinating world of the food web. Eaten asks, what should we eat? And who should eat us?!

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]]> Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/amy-conways-super-awesome-world/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:19 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23682 Join Amy on a videogame adventure like no other in a quest for sparks of joy in the darkness. A powerful, moving and humorous show for anyone that has ever battled their own demons.

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]]> A Strange New Space https://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/event/a-strange-new-space/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:04:18 +0000 http://festival17.summerhall.co.uk/?post_type=event&p=23681 The life changing adventure of space-obsessed Amira that mirrors her real life journey as a refugee. A non-verbal, physical show for all ages with puppetry and music from the maker of The Tap Dancing Mermaid.

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