We Built This City
We Built This City places children in the role of architect, empowering them to construct their ideal city, and during the performance they will make buildings go up, pull them down, redesign them, extend, walk through, jump on, and reconstruct them. We Built This City is not a play… it is play. Polyglot Theatre bring their tour to Waterloo Terrace at the National Theatre for LIFT 2010.
Details
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Dates/Times
Fri 2 Jul / 12:00 - Sun 4 Jul / 12:00
Fri 2 Jul / 16:00 - Sun 4 Jul / 16:00
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Location
Watch This Space, National Theatre
Forget playing ‘Sim City’ at home alone, now children can realise their urban dreams in three dimensions with scores of other budding young architects in WE BUILT THIS CITY.
Presented by one of Australia’s leading children’s theatre companies Polyglot Theatre, WE BUILT THIS CITY invites children and families to construct a city from thousands of cardboard boxes.
Under the watchful eyes of professional building experts and accompanied by a live DJ, the only city limits here are in the mind, as participants are encouraged to let their imaginations run wild and create edifices as tall, wide and outlandish as they can. But whilst WE BUILT THIS CITY is pure fun on one level, its interactive and collaborative nature also points out how the urban environment contains many interconnected lives, finally emphasising the impermanence of everything around us when the installation is eventually crushed flat by its creators.
The times for We Built This City are:
Fri 12.00-14.30 and 14.00-16.30
Sat 12.00-14.30 and 14.00-16.30
Sun 12.00-13.00 and 14.00-16.00
but you can join in any time!
In association with the National Theatre.