How does a site-specific performance piece for children become an interactive visual art exhibition? Sue Buckmaster, the Artistic Director of theatre-rites, explains how the company’s three-way collaboration with the Unicorn theatre company and a children’s museum spanned both a production and installation.
Three five-year-old boys are having a great time with life-sized shadow puppets: one is projecting a cowboy, the same size as the boys themselves, onto a wall and is manipulating its movements, while his two friends engage in pretend fisty-cuffs with the image. The role-play is completely spontaneous and improvised – and it’s taking place in a museum in South London.
