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Press
“The veteran children's troupe are masters of interactive
play.”
Paola Totaro, The Age, UK
>full article (PDF)
“‘[ We Built This City] is the most fun
you can have in the entire world.’”
Emma Sartori,The Bendigo Miner, Aus
>full article (PDF)
"Whilst We Built This City is pure fun on one
level, its interactive and collaborative nature also points
out how the urban environment contains many interconnected
lives, finally emphasizing the impermanence of everything
around us when the installation is eventually crushed flat
by its creators."
London International Festival of Theatre
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Description
Polyglot Theatre is Australia’s
leading creator of experiential, interactive and installation
theatre for children aged up to 12 years. Our artists view children
as genuine collaborators, facilitating a professionally-led
artistic process to create imagined worlds where audiences actively
participate in performance through touch, play and encounter.
At Polyglot, theatre is child’s play...
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Sue
Giles Biography
Since Sue Giles was appointed Artistic
Director of Polyglot in 2000, she
has directed, written or devised ten works which have toured
nationally and internationally. Her conceptual work We
Built This City has toured continually for ten
years including to the Melbourne International Arts Festival,
Kennedy Center Washington, Act3 Festival Singapore and through
England, Ireland and Scotland...
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Repertory
We Built This City
We Built This City is an interactive play space
for families which celebrates absolute simplicity and the
power of children’s imaginations. A giant public construction
site, We Built This City uses thousands
and thousands of cardboard boxes and the energy and ingenuity
of kids and families to build a magnificent imagined city
in one day... >more
info
Tangle
Tangle is a huge, messy, fun, interactive elastic
weaving event created live by children and their families.
Imagine 25 poles of various heights and that each child is
given a colored ball of elastic. Like a giant peg board, children
and families create a landscape together, tangling and weaving
colored elastic through giant poles... >more
info
Muckheap
Funny, physical and fantastically messy, Muckheap
is a tale of two people trying to clean out their house for
their big move. In the process of packing and sorting they
find all their hoarded junk too interesting, useful or too
full of memories to throw away. As a way of coping...>more
info
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2011/2012
Tour Dates
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| Sat-Sat, Oct 1-8, 2011 |
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
We Built This City and Muckheap |
Costa Mesa, CA |
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