Curiosity! Choice! Wonder! What’s inside the Wonderbox?
Sensorium Theatre, Australia’s leading theatre company making work specifically designed for young audiences with disability and their friends, invites children to roll the dice and set out along a safe, exhilarating pathway into the unknown. Inside a giant puzzle-box of illusions, kooky-carnival friends lead audiences into an immersive multi-sensory wonderland of fantastical large-scale projections, strange tiny delights and infectious live music.
EVERY child’s curiosity is celebrated and rewarded with wondrous surprises. As boxes reveal boxes within boxes each child is given the opportunity to find a magical version of themselves. Inside the Wonderbox, micro moments of whole worlds in a matchbox lead into macro universes where EVERYONE is invited to be wonderful!
After more than 12 years of connecting, engaging and captivating thousands of young audiences with disability nationally and internationally with their magical multi-sensory immersive shows, Perth-based Sensorium Theatre continues to break open barriers to truly inclusive arts experiences with their most ambitious show yet. Wonderbox aims to be accessible to all children and every child (and the child in everyone) is invited to look inside the box and find their rightful place.
Presented by Darwin Festival and Darwin Entertainment Centre
Reviews
“I am so extremely grateful that my child had this opportunity. It was a very special experience that I will remember for a long time.”
Audience Member
"This production is a beautiful example of the inclusive potential of live theatre.”
Seesaw Magazine
Credits
Director & Designer Francis Italiano
Assistant Director Michelle Hovane
Musical Director & Composer Jamie David
Songwriting and Additional Composition Rebecca Bradley and Jamie David
Movement Director Daisy Sanders
Costume Designer & Associate Set Designer Amalia Lambert
Headpiece Design & Construction Mand Markey
Costume Construction Ellen Flatters
Lighting Designer Lucy Birkinshaw
Audio Visual Designer & Projections Roly Skender
Creative Coder & Technical FX Steve Berrick
Specialist Props Creation Minaxi May
Dramaturgs & Devisors Francis Italiano, Michelle Hovane, Rebecca Bradley, Jamie David, Daisy Sanders
Rehearsal Director Ella Hetherington
Performers Jamie David, Bec Bradley, Rachael Woodward, Gabriel Critti-Schnaars & Joanna Lavole
Stage Manager Catherine O’Donoghue
Photos Jessica Wyld, Daniel Grant, Christophe Canato
Produced by Performing Lines WA
Proudly supported by
Wonderbox has received significant public and private support including the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body; the WA Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; Cassandra Gantner Foundation, Wind Over Water Foundation, the Australian Culture Fund, Spinifex Trust, JEM Foundation and Arts Impact. The world-premiere of the work was commissioned and presented by Perth Festival. Wonderbox is produced by Performing Lines WA.
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