Felix Floods
We worked with The Herd Theatre to create a speculative show for 2-5year olds and their families. Together we created an original story, wrote a script, made music, developed a design and thought carefully about the audience we’d like to reach. Below is a consolidation of our process.
Feelings are tricky, you don’t always know how they’re going to come out. Sometimes they trickle, sometimes they flood…
Felix the cloud wants to make friends with the children of the town that he watches over, so he comes down flooded with excitement. But the children don’t understand Felix’s feelings, they think he’s just trouble.
The town is flooded. Felix is alone.
Enter our town to help Mildred, Minnie and Tajorn get their toys back. Splash your way through this brand new show for 2-5 year olds and their families, full of music, water and feelings.
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Storyboard
This is our town. This is its rubbish. This is Minnie, Tajorn and Mildred. And this is its cloud.
The cloud is upset. He wants the children to play outside. He cries and cries and rains and rains. He floods the town.
The children come out. The flood sees his chance. He snatches their toys and rushes away!
Mildred doesn’t hesitate, and dives into the water. Minnie follows. Tajorn starts getting in, nervously.
The water thinks it’s all a game so he moves the toys further and further away.
Mildred and Minnie rescue him.
The children go inside. Tajorn is upset, Mildred is angry, Minnie stays hidden, watching the water.
Minnie spots him, and before he can go any further, she throws a piece of rubbish at him.
Minnie is scared. She farts. The water laughs. The water farts.
Felix returns the toys to the children.
Felix leaves. The children wave goodbye.
Credits
Felix Floods was created by:
Eliza Hemphill
Daniella Faircloth
Kieran Daly
Isobel Resimic
Blythe McCormack
Estrella Alonso-Gonzalez-Sinde
Gregory Higginson
Mikaela Arponen
Eden Rickson
Jack Clerkin
The show was devised by the company and then realised in smaller teams:
PLAYTEXT
Kieran Daly
Eden Rickson
Estrella Alonso-Gonzalez-Sinde Jack Clerkin
MUSIC COMPOSITION
Eliza Hemphill
Daniella Faircloth
Gregory Higginson
VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Eliza Hemphill
Daniella Faircloth
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
Blythe McCormack
Isobel Resimic
Mikaela Arponen
ACCESS & WORKSHOP DESIGN
Gregory Higginson
Daniella Faircloth
Eliza Hemphill
The process was Directed by Ruby Thompson and Sam Caseley with Design support by Ruta Irbite and Music support by Neil Carter.