Stories

Stories and stories and more stories! Out of the bag, into the story! We love stories! And most of all love bringing them to life. We invite our audience in so that they become storytellers too. Every story jumps into a different world taking children and families with us.

We have numerous original stories and have adapted many existing stories, with every telling fresh and unique. We always respond to the children and their reactions. This being alive in the moment is the essence of theatre; and it keeps our stories meaningful and our telling playful.

Our stories are available as events in themselves. As an interactive storytelling, 45 to 60 minutes long, they are taken into schools, nurseries and venues. They are used as springboards with children in workshops, clubs and youth theatres. From these stories our shows were developed.

A weekly interactive storytelling takes place on Friday mornings, term time, at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells. More information here.

Whilst these weekly sessions are for young children with their carers, we have stories for everyone, of all ages. And, if you need another story, we can create, adapt, write and stage one to your own theme and needs. Please get in touch!

Titles of some original stories:

A Tip-Up of Potatoes; Man Tam, Oak-Man; Ada Growild; Midsummer Moth Madness; Tiger Bridge; The Sea Dragon; Rosie Roar; The Fidgets; Gracie’s Dress Mess; Bananas!

Examples of adapted traditional tales:

European fairytales such as Jack & the Beanstalk, Rumpelstiltskein, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel. And other tales from around the world, for example the Ananci tales.

Examples of storytellings adapted from books:

Amos & Boris by William Steig

The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis

Augustus and his smile by Catherine Raynor