BOXVILLE - SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 2024
BOXVILLE - SATURDAY 22ND JUNE 2024
A Cardboard Adventures production with Sam Wilde and Ian Nicholson
Can you help the Boxville engineers gather the materials they need to help save BOXVILLE!
Join Designer Sam Wilde and Director Ian Nicholson (I Want My Hat Back Trilogy) on their next cardboard adventure – BOXVILLE – using their trademark sustainable cardboard puppet style you can venture with us into BOXVILLE, a land made entirely from sustainable cardboard!
Work with the BOXVILLE engineers to craft-a-long and build your way through the story, meeting paper dragons, corrugated pirates, and cardboard space robots in this stem skilled, hands on, interactive, time travel adventure!
Suitable for: age 4-11
Duration: 55 mins
Watch the trailer here:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
# We have two performances taking place at 11am and 3pm.
# Please note that all adults and children require tickets. Under 2s do not need tickets.
# Tickets are FREE, but please note that these are strictly ticketed events, and you won't be allowed entry without having booked tickets in advance. There are no tickets on the door. No unaccompanied children.
# Each performance seats an audience of 72 on benches placed 'in the round'. Please note that the outdoor theatre takes place outdoors, (not under cover) so please dress for the weather. There are no loos on site, so please make sure little ones are well prepared!
# Expect audience participation, occasional loud noises, and lots of laughter! All our family shows are aimed at children of primary school age and have a duration of approximately 60 minutes.
# If, for whatever reason, you are unable to attend, please email us so that we can offer your ticket to others on the waitlist: whitchurchconservationgroup@gmail.com
# No shows/people who book but fail to attend without having contacted us in advance will be placed on our naughty list and won't be able to make any future bookings with us.
# Thanks to generous funding from the Rural England Prosperity Fund we can offer these theatre performances for FREE. We are a voluntary community group and would appreciate your support by purchasing some merchandise - a Mill Trail tea towel @£12. Designed by local artist Jo South, the tea towel illustration depicts the Mill Trail in and around Whitchurch.
# Whitchurch Millennium Meadow: we encourage local attendees to walk to the venue. For those travelling from outside Whitchurch by car, we strongly recommend you to use the free car park at Testbourne School (RG28 7JF) which is only a five minute walk from the Millennium Meadow main entrance on Winchester St. The main entrance to the Millennium Meadow will be well-signposted.
Whitchurch Open Air Theatre is brought to you by Whitchurch Conservation Group, the team behind the award-winning Whitchurch Children's Festival, a family arts festival funded by Arts Council England. Whitchurch Children's Festival won 'Best Family Festival' at the UK Festival Awards 2023.
We are grateful to the trustees of Whitchurch Millennium Meadow for allowing us to use this special space as the venue for Whitchurch Open Air Theatre. Thank you.
