Description
Theo yearns for the excitement of the outside world, but what’s really out there? Join him on a series of fanciful misadventures through his unpredictable imagination. With help from Angelie, a toy lion and an imaginary bird, Theo prepares himself for his first big journey into the great unknown.
Based on Pamela Allen’s much-celebrated A Lion in the Night, the acclaimed Patch Theatre Company return to Sydney Opera House to bring Theo’s dreamworld to life. It’s a place where a typewriter, turntable and umbrella send messages into the sky. Where a curious soup is concocted from milk, cabbage and smelly socks. Where everything is strangely familiar, yet delightfully surprising and quirky.
Exploring the emotional push and pull on the path to independence, Theo and the Lion is insightful, inventive and entertaining. Told largely through images, it’s a genuinely thoughtful production, guaranteed to capture the imagination.
Theo yearns for the excitement of the outside world, but what’s really out there? Join him on a series of fanciful misadventures through his unpredictable imagination. With help from Angelie, a toy lion and an imaginary bird, Theo prepares himself for his first big journey into the great unknown.
Based on Pamela Allen’s much-celebrated A Lion in the Night, the acclaimed Patch Theatre Company return to Sydney Opera House to bring Theo’s dreamworld to life. It’s a place where a typewriter, turntable and umbrella send messages into the sky. Where a curious soup is concocted from milk, cabbage and smelly socks. Where everything is strangely familiar, yet delightfully surprising and quirky.
Exploring the emotional push and pull on the path to independence, Theo and the Lion is insightful, inventive and entertaining. Told largely through images, it’s a genuinely thoughtful production, guaranteed to capture the imagination.
Curriculum Links
Stages ES1, 1 & 2
English
Picture Books: A Lion In The Night (Pamela Allen); Non-verbal Communication; Visual Literacy; Fictional / Imaginative texts
Creative Arts: Drama
Playbuilding; Communication through drama - storytelling, movement, mime, props and costumes; Role and Character
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Artist Information
Director: Dave Brown
Designer: Wendy Todd
Lighting Designer: David Gadsden
Composer: Belinda Gehlert
Performers: Eliza Lovell, Rory Walker, Belinda Gehlert
Collaboratively Created By: all of the above
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