PATCHWORK
The award-winning Patchwork (2014) is one of South Africa’s first Theater for Early Years productions. It unfolds around a bed: the place where the comfort of home meets the strange world of dreams...Pillows become creatures learning to fly, a sheet dances with a life of its own, a teddy and a lamp make best friends, and the proverbial cow jumps over the moon (as do the sheep and the dinosaur)! Patchwork was developed through intense research with the age group, to meet this special audience eye-to-eye, mind-to-mind. It is sure to to engage and delight the senses and encourage empathy, focus and communication. Told through the languages of physical theatre, puppetry and live music, Patchwork is accessible to children of all languages and backgrounds.
“Patchwork is the perfect introduction to theatre for babies…entrancing and visually engaging enough to entertain caregivers who accompany children”
– Tracey Saunders, Cape Times
AGE GROUP
1-4 year olds
CREDITS
Director: Joanna Evans
Featuring: Asanda Rilityana and Roshina Ratnam
Musician: Pedro Espi-Sanchis ('Pedro the Music Man')
Designer: Merryn Carver
Puppetry Director: Gabriel Marchand
Patchwork is created with the support of the ‘Small Size, Big Citizens’ project - Widening of the European Network for the diffusion of the performing arts for early years.
AWARDS
2015 Audience Choice Award for ‘Best International Performance’ at the 22nd Hamedan International Festival of Theatre for Children and Youth
2015 Naledi Award nomination for Best Children’s Theatre
PREVIOUS RUNS
Baxter Theatre, 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa)
‘Visioni di Futuro, Visioni di Teatro’, International Festival of Theatre & Culture for Early Childhood, 2014 (Bologna, Italy)
ASSITEJ Obs Family Festival, 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa)
Cape Town Fringe Festival, 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa)
ASSITEJ Theatre4Youth Forum and Gauteng Tour, 2015 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
ASSITEJ Vrygrond Family Festival, 2015 (Cape Town, South Africa)
22nd Hamedan International Festival of Theatre for Children and Youth, 2015 (Hamedan, Iran)
Sibikwa Arts Festival, 2015 (Johannesburg, South Africa)