ESSENTIAL PLAYWORKS
The city needs fixing. The city needs play. Kids and their grown-ups can join a team of playworkers to build, dress up, imagine, and fix the city’s streets through play.
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Part game, part show, part infrastructure project, Essential Playworks is a performance that gets its audience playing and imagination flowing.
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AGE 5+ YEARS AND THEIR GROWN UPS
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DURATION - 55 MINUTE EXPERIENCE
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FREEDOM FESTIVAL, HULL
Saturday 31 Aug 14:00, 17:00
Sunday 1 Sep 14:00, 17:00
CAST
RICKY ADAM BASSETT
RICK ANDY ROSS
RIC SARAH PENNEY
CREATIVES
CREATED AND DEVISED WITH THE CAST
CONCEPT BY RUBY THOMPSON + SAM CASELEY
COMPOSER SAM CASELEY
DIRECTOR RUBY THOMPSON
PRODUCER SARAH PENNEY
DESIGN ASSISTANTS NATALIE YOUNG, JANET THOMPSON + ANDY ROSS
SET BUIILD APUS PRODUCTIONS
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What to Expect Guide can be found here​​​​​​​​​
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The experience will between 50 - 60 minutes. It is made for families to enjoy together with an age guide of 5+
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The show will take place outside in Hull City Centre, on Parliament Street at the corner of Whitefriargate.
The show involves a small amount of walking, around 150yards (around 2 minutes) The road surface is even, and suitable for wheelchairs or mobility aids.
The show involves audience participation. The characters will facilitate play with the audience.
You can get involved at your own pace and to you decide what you do in the experience.
The show is not signed, but the performers communicate non-verbally, without spoken words, they use
guesture and so it is suitable for those who are D/deaf and with hearing impairments, or English as an
additional language.
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The experience is not audio described.
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ESSENTIAL PLAY WORKS is programmed by
ESSENTIAL PLAY WORKS is kindly supported by
Huge THANK YOU to M B Roche and Helix CMS for donating building materials to the project
And thank you for letting us use rehearsal space in kind
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