12-16 January 2011
Premiering in Melbourne in 2001, We Built This City is now fresh from several world tours to some of the world’s most prestigious arts centres including Washington’s Kennedy Center, Singapore’s Esplanade, and the Royal National Theatre in London. We Built This City has inspired over 40 000 children playing with over 150 000 cardboard boxes over the last 10 years.
We Built This City is an interactive cardboard construction site installation and performance for families which celebrates absolute simplicity and the power of children’s imaginations. Using thousands of cardboard boxes and underscored by live music, kids and families create an ever-changing imagined city, putting the architectural experts to shame. Buildings go up, are pulled down, redesigned, extended, walked through and reconstructed; tunnels are created alongside archways, towers and labyrinths. At the end, everyone joins in trampling the city down into a gloriously chaotic heap of cardboard rubble.
12 - 14 March 2011
Tangled Web is a huge, messy, fun and interactive elastic-weaving event created in real time by children and their families. It’s part mass visual arts installation, part performance, part playground, part dance party and all chaos.
Starting with nothing but a giant peg board, children and families create a landscape together, tangling and weaving coloured elastic through giant poles. The result is like a shared squiggly line drawing in three dimensions that creates a stretchy bouncy playground, fuelled by live music and culminating in a big dance party.
Tangled Web is an experiment where children take control to create a giant, abstract, tangled artwork which everyone owns.
Wed 6 – Sun 10 July 2011
Free school holiday fun! Looking for something special for the kids to do during the 1st week of the July school holidays?
Then put Paper Planet at Federation Square in your diary now! Polyglot Theatre will turn your children into paper characters as they explore an out-of-this-world, constantly changing play space. A live soundscape transports everyone further into our world of delightful paper creatures and objects whilst we work together to create and add to a fantasy Paper Planet.
Guaranteed to have your children literally wrapped up!
Polyglot's Artistic Philosophy
Polyglot's Artistic Director Sue Giles discusses the artistic philosophy behind her creative work. Inspired by the art, play and ideas of children, Polyglot makes interactive theatre where audiences take an active part in the creation of imagined worlds.
A little about us
Polyglot is Australia’s leading creator of experiential, interactive and installation theatre for children aged up to 12 years. Inspired by the artwork, play and ideas of children we create imagined worlds where audiences actively participate in performance through touch, play and encounter. At Polyglot, theatre is child’s play.
Our collaborative creative process provides a professional framework for channelling and engaging with the unique imaginations of children. Our program of artistic works responds to the childhood need for experiences that encourage free artistic expression and an imaginative interpretation of the world. We employ rigour in the thinking around our audiences and our work. Our Feed The Art model of artistic replenishment and appraisal ensures continuing relevance and the highest quality theatre making.
Polyglot is a touring company, playing locally, nationally and internationally, creating challenging work which invites the audience’s active involvement. Performing to 60 000 children annually with a program that embraces large-scale public interactive works, roving shows, theatre performances, schools touring, site-specific work, community participation performances and kids workshops. For over 30 years, Polyglot has ignited children’s imaginations everywhere from tiny Australian country towns to the world’s leading arts centres.
Contact details
Address
27A Cromwell Road,
South Yarra, VIC 3141
Phone
(03) 9827 9667
Fax
(03) 9826 1937
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Polyglot Theatre
27A Cromwell Road,
South Yarra, 3141
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