LicketyLeap!
firing children's imagination
A picture from Leanne. Thank you Leanne!
Lickety – anyone – anything - anywhere, we can imagine!
A new interactive theatre experience for 3-5 year olds.
LicketyLeap is a piece of interactive theatre performed in and around a small very flexible set, for ten three and four year olds, two actors and two teachers/carers. It was developed by a team of Licketyspit theatre practitioners through an extended process of consultation and play with children and nursery staff in Glasgow's Cranhill and in East Lothian with support from the Scottish Arts Council, East Lothian and Glasgow Councils and EIS.
We believe this is an exciting development in relation to children's arts provision. In the twenty or so performances there have been so far, participating children have been extremely responsive and attentive and the experience has fed into subsequent imaginative play in both the short and longer term. Many teachers and parents have been very surprised by the level of their children's responses. Children seem to find LicketyLeap an empowering and inspiring experience.
Licketyspit is currently undertaking a Study into the impact of LicketyLeap on children together with Brunton Theatre and Glasgow City Council with support from EIS. The company is also exploring ways in which this project could be used as the focus for a range of activities and approaches in relation to nurturing Early Years children. The LicketyLeap Study will be published later in 2010 and presented at events in East Lothian and Glasgow.
Children often say they would like to come on stage and be in our shows,
LicketyLeap! is the show where at last they can!
“I loved the going to the moon bit. I loved doing the witch game. I loved watching the whole bit of the show Heelie go Leerie” (4 yr old)
“a truly rich and original children's theatre experience…the whole audience is charmed, touched and just slightly changed. Joyce Macmillan, THE SCOTSMAN on Heelie-go-Leerie****
Our school have just been to your show today in Peebles and we thought it was fabulous. We really loved the energy and sheer imagination - it totally captivated the children. You know your audience very well! - teacher Heelie-go-Leerie’08
"I would just like to tell you that as well as enjoying the show, my daughters have had a great 'Heelie go Leerie' time since coming home ! They have played with the cut-outs and made junk dens for them; they have been into space and they have been singing the songs and making up rhymes. We were perhaps not as responsive as you would have liked but we have be very noisy at home!” Parent
Created and led by Virginia Radcliffe and Rosalind Sydney in collaboration with Designer Ali Maclaurin and Composer Tim Brinkhurst in consultaion with nursery children in Glasgow and East Lothian. Presented in association with The Brunton Theatre and Glasgow City Council.