Work - Children's Theatre
Sho and the Demons of the Deep
Independent Arts Projects
www.independentartsprojects.com Director Shilpa T-Hyland Set & Costume Designer Claire Halleran Lighting Designer Kate Bonney Composer & Sound Designer Niroshini Thambar Movement Director Mele Broomes Design Assistant Morven McLeod Courage can come from the smallest of places. Shō and the Demons of the Deep is a visual adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis and how the actions of one generation can affect the next. Designed for everyone aged 8+, the show is inspired by the picture book of the same name by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko. Shō’s city has been plagued by nightmares for as long as she can remember, but hers are the worst of all. One day, Shō has had enough. She throws her nightmares away into the river, where they wash out to sea. Soon people start copying her; the city is rid of its nightmares, and everyone is delighted. But sixty years later, when the river becomes poisoned, Shō’s granddaughter Hana must face her greatest fears in order to save her home. Images - Mihaela Bodlovic. |
Polar Bears Go Go Go

Polar Bearwww.thepolarbears.org
www.unicorntheatre.com/PolarBearsGo
By Ivor MacAskill and Fiona Manson
Director Lee Lyford
Designer Claire Halleran
Lighting Designer Sam Waddington
Music by Greg Sinclair
Join the two very lovable but slightly hapless Polar Bears on their holiday adventures. Will they ever reach their destination? Or are they just going around in circles?
Have your ticket ready, find your seat, fasten your seat belt and anchors aweigh – take off and go, go, go!
Winner of an Offie 2020 for Best Children's Production
Images by Craig Sugden
www.unicorntheatre.com/PolarBearsGo
By Ivor MacAskill and Fiona Manson
Director Lee Lyford
Designer Claire Halleran
Lighting Designer Sam Waddington
Music by Greg Sinclair
Join the two very lovable but slightly hapless Polar Bears on their holiday adventures. Will they ever reach their destination? Or are they just going around in circles?
Have your ticket ready, find your seat, fasten your seat belt and anchors aweigh – take off and go, go, go!
Winner of an Offie 2020 for Best Children's Production
Images by Craig Sugden
The Pokey Hat

Grinagog Theatre
www.grinagog.co.uk
Director - Clare McGarry
Writer - Martin O'Connor
Music - Oliver Searle
Dramaturg - Bill Wright
Design - Claire Halleran
Design Assistant - Sophie Ferguson
The Pokey Hat is a family show performed outside in an ice cream van. What do you remember about ice-cream; going to the van, Italian cafes or Scottish holidays? Created as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
'Gleefully inventive...larky comedy, witty songs and daft antics that incorporates a strand of happy nostalgia. Truly cone-tastic!' The Herald ★★★★★
'A beautiful little treat of a show.' Sunday Herald.
Scotsman ★★★★
The List ★★★★
The Times ★★★★
The Stage ★★★★
Nominated for Critics Award for Theatre, Best Children's Production 2014/15
Production images by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
www.grinagog.co.uk
Director - Clare McGarry
Writer - Martin O'Connor
Music - Oliver Searle
Dramaturg - Bill Wright
Design - Claire Halleran
Design Assistant - Sophie Ferguson
The Pokey Hat is a family show performed outside in an ice cream van. What do you remember about ice-cream; going to the van, Italian cafes or Scottish holidays? Created as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
'Gleefully inventive...larky comedy, witty songs and daft antics that incorporates a strand of happy nostalgia. Truly cone-tastic!' The Herald ★★★★★
'A beautiful little treat of a show.' Sunday Herald.
Scotsman ★★★★
The List ★★★★
The Times ★★★★
The Stage ★★★★
Nominated for Critics Award for Theatre, Best Children's Production 2014/15
Production images by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
The Man Who Followed His Legs

Wee Stories
www.weestoriestheatre.org.uk
Written and directed by Iain Johnstone
Design - Claire Halleran
Music & sound design - David Trouton
Video design - Tim Reid
Lighting design - Simon Hayes
Artwork & print design - Iain Craig
A celebration of human resilience, following the story of two Young Scottish coalminers’ experience of World War 1. The death, loss and mayhem of the trenches forces Johnny to follow his legs (and keep on walking) to rediscover a reason for living.
Funny, entertaining and moving, Wee Stories bring their distinctive brand of storytelling to this rich production, based on the involvement of the Hearts football Battalion in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
The Man who followed his Legs (and kept on walking) recognises the human cost of this and other global conflicts whilst celebrating human resilience and the possibility of recovery from even the most terrible experiences.
Video images, puppetry, music and performance vividly bring alive the enormity of this first global conflict for a new generation of young people.
'Wee Stories’ productions have a knack of opening doors to other worlds, hiding necessary and important information in beautiful narratives that leave you less ignorant, more curious and connected, and feeling all the better for it.' Edinburgh Guide ★★★★
Images by Kat Gollock and Eoin Carey
www.weestoriestheatre.org.uk
Written and directed by Iain Johnstone
Design - Claire Halleran
Music & sound design - David Trouton
Video design - Tim Reid
Lighting design - Simon Hayes
Artwork & print design - Iain Craig
A celebration of human resilience, following the story of two Young Scottish coalminers’ experience of World War 1. The death, loss and mayhem of the trenches forces Johnny to follow his legs (and keep on walking) to rediscover a reason for living.
Funny, entertaining and moving, Wee Stories bring their distinctive brand of storytelling to this rich production, based on the involvement of the Hearts football Battalion in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
The Man who followed his Legs (and kept on walking) recognises the human cost of this and other global conflicts whilst celebrating human resilience and the possibility of recovery from even the most terrible experiences.
Video images, puppetry, music and performance vividly bring alive the enormity of this first global conflict for a new generation of young people.
'Wee Stories’ productions have a knack of opening doors to other worlds, hiding necessary and important information in beautiful narratives that leave you less ignorant, more curious and connected, and feeling all the better for it.' Edinburgh Guide ★★★★
Images by Kat Gollock and Eoin Carey