Summer season of Little Angel Theatre’s 60th year announced

Photo credit: Ellie Kurttz

Iconic family theatre company Little Angel Theatre celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, with an adventurous and enchanting year of work.

Little Angel Artistic Director Samantha Lane directs a ‘choose your own adventure’-style live digital production of Sean Taylor’s Where the Bugaboo Lives, running from 14 March - 2 May, featuring design by Ellie Mills. This is followed by Julia Donaldson’s The Smartest Giant in Town in a new co-production with Fierylight from 21 May (subject to government guidelines). Lane once again directs and collaborates on the adaption with Barb Jungr.

New digital series People Behind the Puppets will run weekly from 1 April, celebrating 60 years of ground-breaking puppetry design as Little Angel’s very own puppet ‘Angel’ interviews makers including Toby Olié and Alison Alexander. Then expect ‘magical trees’ to appear throughout Islington this Summer, designed by artists including Sam Wilde and Ingrid Hu, populated by puppets made by local children and inspired by a brand new Joseph Coelho poem, The Wishing Tree.

Created with young people at Great Ormond Street, Little Angel’s co-production with GOSH, If Not Here…Where?, has been adapted into a digital production, which can continue to tour hospitals and hospices throughout the summer transporting some of the most isolated children to a magical fantasy world. Their free digital series Watch, Make, Share will also continue to be released every fortnight, and features short digital plays and puppet-making activities.

For more information about the programme, please click here.