Moon Broken
Art Play
Hannah Liddeaux and Alex Walker
2016
I want to heal the moon again, again, again, again, again – Charlie (aged 4)
The whole experience of Moon Broken has stayed with my children well beyond the show, we are spending a lot more time looking upward! – Parent
This work is full of wonder, magic and ritual – Parent
An old dock....a flotilla of hammock boats...the moon is crying so the fish aren't biting...everyone is wet and hungry.
Only the young are armed with the ancient wisdom of moon healing. Please help, it's an emergency.
Presented with a talisman ticket and a canister for collecting moon tears, children embark on an intimate journey to restore a broken moon back to fullness. Travelling earnestly on hammock boats through the realm where sky meets sea, the imaginative expertise of the young people is applied to this other-worldly environment. They meet figures along the way - a pleading fisherwoman, a guardian of the galaxy, a doctor of the solar system. Sirens are sounded and urgent messages are communicated through torchlight and phone cables. Hospital trolleys appear, full to the brim with cuddles, candles, cotton swabs and milk droppers. Each moon organ lying in a crib needs a special young kindness to recover and rejoin its fellow parts up high in the sky. Then, a grateful moon sings and sways. Thank you. Apple tea. Rest. The fish emerge, order is restored. We needed you and you came.
CREATED BY: Hannah Liddeaux and Alex walker
SOUND DESIGN: MADELEINE FLYNN AND TIM HUMPHREY
LIGHTING DESIGN: LUCY BIRKINSHAW
SET CONSTRUCTION: STEWART CAMPBELL
SINGING: ASEEL TAYAH
