Buggy spaces and baby changing facilities can be just as important as what’s on stage
Written by Flossie Waite A few years ago, a contributor sent me a review of a concert for babies that she had attended with her child. Almost the entire word […]
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What to see in London: May Half Term 2018
From a festival exploring how technology shapes our lives, to adaptations of poems, picturebooks and fairytales young and old, to space bunnies, bees and a star-seeking puppy, May half term […]
Children’s Theatre Festivals 2018
It doesn’t feel that long ago that we were all knee-deep in Christmas tins of Quality Street, and yet here we are with hot cross buns in the shops, and […]
TakeOff Festival 2017
“Watching something like that just makes me want to immediately go and create something,” another delegate tells me at the end of BonteHond’s iPet, a play which combines magic tricks, […]
TakeOff Festival & international theatre
Though Little Red Riding Hood is the oldest show at this year’s TakeOff Festival, this is the first time it is being presented in the UK. Created by Italian company […]
24 hours at TakeOff Festival
At 30 years young, TakeOff Festival is doing what it always has: proving productions for young audiences are profound, unpredictable, hilarious and exciting. Puppet musicals with singing books can be […]
The Hunting of the Snark Factoids
In 1876 Lewis Carroll – the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford – who was also an avid reader and writer of poetry, published […]
