It's my favourite time to work: just after midnight, on the cusp of summer, the windows open, cool air coming in, and the thick, strange silence of the night. I'm editing the videos of all the R&D for Little Universe. Outside, the sky is perfectly clear, still, black, studded with infinite pricks of light...

Little UniverseDavid Harradine25 May 2012featured--our-blogComment

Making hay...

Little UniverseSam Butler15 May 2012featured--our-blogComment

From heatwave to howling winds

BeesDavid Harradine19 April 2012featured--our-blogComment

An audience of scientists

StilledDavid Harradine19 April 2012featured--our-blogComment

Little Universe

An exciting new adventure for Fevered Sleep

Little UniverseDavid Roots2 April 2012featured--our-blogComment

Research & Development

When making our pieces for children, as with all our work, we take a long time. We take a long time talking, playing, observing and listening to children. We work in schools, and in nurseries and we have a number of schools who regularly help us in our endeavour to make the best work we can.

The ForestDavid Harradine9 March 2012featured--our-blogComment

School workshops

The ForestSam Butler22 February 2012featured--our-blogComment

How to tour a Forest

The ForestSam Butler11 February 2012featured--our-blogComment

Speaking as a parent...

The ForestSam Butler9 February 2012featured--our-blogComment

What's it all about?

The ForestSam Butler6 February 2012featured--our-blogComment

Final week of rehearsals

The ForestDavid Harradine5 February 2012featured--our-blogComment

Growing the Forest

The ForestDavid Harradine31 January 2012featured--our-blogComment

Conkering in September...

Collecting conkers in September for a show in February is fraught with difficulties!

The ForestDavid Roots11 September 2011conkers, production, set, featured--our-blogComment

We've arrived in Sydney

The ForestMarc Heatley28 August 2011featured--our-blogComment

Will the rain fall down?

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots22 March 2011featured--our-blogComment

Water water everywhere – The technical design of And the Rain Falls Down

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots14 March 2011backstage, design, experiments, set, water, featured--our-blogComment

First Performances at The Young Vic

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots25 February 2011audience, children, performance, theatre, water, featured--our-blogComment

Reflecting on Rehearsals

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots24 February 2011audience, children, rehearsal, theatre, water, featured--our-blogComment

And The Rain Falls Down Opens!

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots17 February 2011backstage, performance, set, technical, theatre, touring, featured--our-blogComment

Production photos

We need to production shots… three or four photos that somehow capture the experience of the show, the excitement, the movement, the joy and naughtiness of the water.

And The Rain Falls DownDavid Roots8 February 2011graphics, press, rehearsal, water, featured--our-blogComment