Foldaway A paper theatre, carried into school halls

Staged 1 / 3

Show one · touring February to April

The Boy Who Ate the Moon

A boy climbs a ladder to taste the moon, and then has to put it back a slice at a time.

Ages
5–7
Runs
35 min
Company
2 performers
Interval
None

Two

Will it go in your hall?

Drag the corner of the floor to your hall's real size. The gold outline is our footprint — it does not move, because the arch is 2.4 m and does not fold any smaller.

9.0 × 7.5 m — fits, with 1.5 m spare at the sides.

  • 6.0 × 5.0 m clear floor, plus the audience
  • 2.6 m height clearance under any beam
  • Two 13A sockets within 10 m of the set
  • 45 min to get in, 30 min to get out
  • Van parking within 50 m of a door we can use
  • No blackout — the set brings its own house light

Three

Where the van goes

Pull the year across. Two months of it we are not touring at all — August is spent cutting the next set, and the workshop keeps us through the turn of the year.

Three or four towns a month, eleven or twelve performances, and never more than two hours from the workshop in case a flat splits.

February · The Boy Who Ate the Moon · 4 towns, 11 performances

Four

It folds into two cases

Every flat is hinged where it can be and rolled where it cannot. Drag the handle and watch the whole set walk into the boot of a small van.

StandingPacked

0 of 17 pieces away · 0.0 kg of 32.4 kg · takes two people 12 minutes

Five

One number, and it is the whole number

£445

Within 40 miles of Sheffield · regional rate, no travel charged

Sheffield200 miles