Essential Playworks
Part show, part game, part infra11amstructure project, Essential Playworks is a performance that gets its audience playing. Image © Hollie Mateer
Essential Playworks
By The Herd
Interactive Street Theatre
11am, 1.15pm and 4pm at Buttercross (Location 4)
Lasts 45 minutes (15 minutes performance, 30 minutes audience participatory play)*
Suitable for ages 3+ and their grown ups
*The show involves audience participation. The characters will facilitate play with the audience. You can get involved at your own pace and it is up to you to decide what you do in the experience.
- Speech-free show
- Audio Described performance 11am
- What to Expect guide available to download here
- Accessible viewing area
Kids and their grown-ups join a team of playworkers to build, dress up, imagine, and fix the town’s streets through play.
Part show, part game, part infrastructure project, Essential Playworks is a performance that gets its audience playing.
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- Fun for all ages, Essential Playworks is an interactive performance. Image © Hollie Mateer
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- Streetworks just got a whole lot more fun thanks to the show Essential Playworks. Image © Hollie Mateer
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- Fun for all ages is order of the day with Essential Playworks. Image © Hollie Mateer
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- Dressed in style ready for Essential Playworks, complete with a bucket over their head. Image © Hollie Mateer
Images © Hollie Mateer
About The Herd
The Herd makes space for childhood. Rooted in Hull, and acclaimed nationally, they collaborate with young children to dream up shows, installations and programmes of play that ignite joy, celebrate child creativity and nurture family connection. They believe in the radical power of the arts to reimagine a world with more space for early childhood, a world where children thrive and communities flourish.