Catch your Breath

for 3-6 year olds
Theatre-Rites and the Lyric Hammersmith
UK nationally 2002 / UK and Japan 2004

Catch Your Breath toured nationally in 2002, including a five-week Christmas run at the Lyric, Hammersmith. The production toured again in 2004, this time including a four-week tour of Japan.

A child with a wild imagination. A child who gives no-one time to breathe. ‘Let’s make a house!’ A whirlwind of ideas. ‘Not like that! Like this!’ Will the house get built? The adults huff and puff to keep up. Join them all on this windswept magical journey into the world of play, where home-made dens and hidey-holes reveal intriguing secrets.

Catch Your Breath takes a magical look at how children define their sense of space – their dependence and independence. It is inspired by the hidden hidey-holes which children create and explores how young children learn to play together. Catch Your Breath uses a fusion of puppetry, gentle performance and choreographed objects and images, to create a world in which the imagination can take flight.

Directed by Sue Buckmaster
in collaboration with
Installation Artist Sophia Clist
Animated Film Director Lizzie Oxby
Composer Nigel Piper
Lighting Designer Phil Supple
Assistant Director Romilly Walton Masters
Production Manager Sebastian Hall
Technical Stage Manager Lorraine Powderly
Company Emilie Feron, Noriko Sakura, Avital Dvory/Stewart Fraser
“Endlessly inventive … full of unexpected visual wonders.”

The Guardian