HAY!
A scarecrow grows tired of standing still in his field while crows comfortably nest in his hat. When a farmer accidentally sets him free, he joyfully discovers movement! With the farmer's guidance, he explores the natural world, learning to walk, dance, and sing.
However, the scarecrow secretly yearns to fly like the birds he was meant to frighten.
This wordless, 50-minute performance explores themes of harmony and discovery through movement, original music, and striking costumes. It is designed for small stages and non-theatrical spaces alike, using 'grammelot' as a form of expression.
Dedicated to everyone who occasionally feels stuck in place while dreaming of soaring into the sky.
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THE LITTLE PRINCE
Gaze into the heavens above,
Is the answer a yes or a no?
Did a sheep on a distant star,
Consume a blossom you'll never know?
Based on the beloved classic, this story takes audiences on an interstellar journey, highlighting that life's truest essence is invisible to the eye and can only be felt by the heart.
Declaring that "everything is so small where I live," the young protagonist departs his tiny home planet via a flock of space-bound birds to explore Earth. It is here that he encounters a stranded pilot—the rare adult who still retains a sense of childhood wonder. Together, they ponder the vast mysteries of the universe, including the fate of a distant, unseen rose.
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
A wardrobe can take you to magical spaces, to all sorts of stories and wonderful places. Ours is a portal to the wild wood where something is roaming the forest, animals are mysteriously going missing and a little girl has just received a beautiful red cloak from her granny. Open our doors and it all comes alive through puppetry, songs and music from hidden hatches and secret compartments.
We're sure you'll say what a great show we've got - all the better to thrill you with!
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HEART OF WINTER
Christmas is coming and Sally can't sleep – it's far too hot! The weather has gone topsy-turvy. No-one can remember the last time it snowed, or even rained, and her father can't sell any of his umbrellas. To help her sleep Dad reads her a story about the last snowflake.
That night Sally has a dream that changes everything – a mysterious silver spark transforms her bedroom into a glistening, white field where she meets the glowing heart of Winter.
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PLAY@HOME
Lyngo has developed a way to have that Christmas show experience for those of you who are not able to get to the theatre this year. It is a creative-play project for families with children under 10 which will get you ready for your big celebration.
In the beginning of years, when the world was so new, the four seasons lined up to get their colours and crowns, their toys and their moods. When it came time for Winter there was nothing left exept a wet white blanket which made him so sad that he pulled it over his head and wouldn't come out to play... until a child took him on a journey through a garden of delights, climbing the ladder of the trees up to a shining star...
Lyngo Theatre have developed a show that you can actually do at home, not just watch! By following our fun instructional videos in the weeks leading up to Christmas, you'll make props and table-top sets from recycled materials and household objects, invent your own sensory sessions and take a creative-play journey together as a family through a garden of delights.
THERE AND BACK AGAIN - AN ODYSSEY
Follow CBeebies Patrick Lynch as he uses a pioneering mix of live cinema and theatre to take you on a thrilling ride across the magical world of ancient Greece. With miniature sets he directs the lights, camera and action in front of your eyes to show the famous battles, floating islands, one-eyed giants and angry Gods that make up Ulysees' 20 year struggle to get back home.
The use of multiple cameras magnifies in wide screen our table-top pup-petry down to the smallest detail, turning a storm-in-a-teacup into an Ae-gean tempest, laying out the fundamental fable hidden in this classic of world-literature and proving that no matter how far you roam, there's no place like Homer.
THE SHOW WILL TOUR FROM APRIL 2017 ONWARDS
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TOM THUMB
One night tiny Tom overhears Mum and Dad talking - there's nothing left to eat so they are going to leave him and his six brothers in the forest!
Outwitting his parents and the ogre Tom shows everybody that even though he is small he is still mighty as he protects his brothers, finds the treasure and makes sure they'll never be hungry again.
Performed entirely on and under a kitchen table this wee wonder of a show is full of Lyngo magic with feathery spinning birds, a flying house and a portable forest. CBeebies Patrick Lynch, who has been performing it for more than a decade, brings this classic story to life in a playful and fascinating show.
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PUSS IN BOOTS
Lyngo Theatre are bringing out their next fabulous fable. As with our last show - 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - this is no pantomime. It does full justice to the adventure and depth of the original story. It's not behind you, oh no it isn't. Our magical story is all right in front of you is a perfect 50 minutes for ages 3-8.
We have developed a stand-alone sloping mini-stage that allows us to surprise and delight the audience with drawers, trap-doors, puppets and shadow-play. It's suitable for small to mid-stage theatres.
THE SHOW WILL TOUR FROM FEBRUARY 2015 ONWARDS
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HANSEL AND GRETEL
A musical theatre version of this classic brother and sister tale of adventure and magic where we'll have you humming along throughout and cheering as the witch slides down into our flaming oven.
Is hunger stronger than love? In this story it seems to be as the poor woodsman's empty stomach goes to his head, he gives in to the bony step-mother and they leave Hansel and Gretel in the forest, not just once but twice and the second time there won't be any moonstones to follow back home. Instead they follow their noses to the sugary heart of the forest where the witches are waiting. Hansel and Gretel's musical journey takes them from a house with empty cupboards and a step-mother who doesn't like children to a house made of sweets and someone who just loves children – on toast!
Lyngo serve up a musical theatre treat with their own special recipe of multi-roled performances, captivating songs and beautiful imagery.
"Lyngo Theatre's…expert way with theatre for the young is evident in their work." reviewsgate.com
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SNOW PLAY
What would you do if one year Winter decided to stay and moved into your house? You would have icicles in the kitchen and snow all over your bed! Well that's what happens in our snowy spectacular show where you are guaranteed a white Christmas, no matter what the weather or the time of year!
When Mr Green comes back from holiday to find Mr White in his house it's the start of a brrrrilliant series of adventures as Mr White covers the whole house in snow and Mr Green does everything he can to get him outside into the garden. The audience gets stuck in too with their own snow, making a snowman and joining in with a massive snowball fight. But it's getting warmer and, as Mr White stars to melt, the tables might be turning... Snow Play is a showdown between Winter and Spring over who gets to stay and who has to go away!
"Wonderful" ★★★★★ Metro "Gales of infantile laughter…Great stuff …a delight." The Stage
"A fantastic, utterly enchanting show. Children and adults will be captivated." Evening Standard
"This is a show with real universal appeal for young and old alike... interactive theatre at its best, good old-fashioned non-stop entertainment." Primary Times
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Fee Fi Fo Fum! It's a giant of a show, we'd love you to come!
This classic fairytale now gets the Lyngo treatment so expect lots of surprises, a gripping story and beautiful images as Jack sells his cow for 5 magic beans and finds himself in the land above the clouds. It's a show for the over 3's (and their giants) with something for everyone – enormous shoes, tiny houses, showers of silver and gold and a big, leafy explosion!
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THE CURIOUS ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO
'The curious adventures of Pinocchio' is the title of Lyngo's new show. We are adapting this epic tale into a unique retelling where the story leaps off the page and onto the stage. Crickets, cats, foxes and, of course, the world-famous puppet, will spring out of our collection of dusty, old, magic books, while Patrick Lynch from CBeebies pulls all the strings and turns all the pages to bring you the true story of Pinocchio, no lie. Who nose? He might even find his father and become a real boy.
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THE DUSTMAN
Dreams are mysterious. We don't know what they mean or why they happen but we know where they come from – The Dust Man makes them. He lives on the other side of the mirror where all the forgotten dusty things end up. From the flotsam and jetsam of your memories and wishes he constructs your personal dream voyage for you every night. All of us dream so he's pretty busy and with the toilet-phone constantly ringing and the night falling into a saucepan it's really a nightmare for him. Nero, his cat, is there to help him though and tonight they are both going to make your dreams come true in front of your eyes in a tour de force of stage illusions and surreal events. You'll be constantly rubbing your eyes and pinching yourself in this show where it is always 9 o'clock but not always bed time and where we find out what to do if you are afraid of the dark. Close your eyes, open your hearts and get ready for the best day-dream you've ever had.
"There's a genuine understanding … of children's night-fears as well as their ability to send imagination into total, rewarding freefall. The visual imagery - magical special effects, deft puppetry - is beautifully contrived while the lively music and Lynch's flair for clowning with an air of mystery in it, make for an intriguing, even reassuring, dreamtime that's also a celebration of theatre itself." The Glasgow Herald
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WATCH THE BIRDY
It all starts with an egg that doesn't want to hatch...His mum is busy, like all mums these days, and can't hang about. She's got to get down South with all the other birds before the Winter arrives. So when she leaves Percy the gardener has to step in and see if he can convince Birdy to come out.
Is he shy, lazy or scared? With that hungry eagle flying about he's got good reason to be frightened but Percy isn't alone in looking after Birdy. There is Nancy the invisible spider, Sheila the spitting fish and Jeremy the sleepy bear as well. Throw in the wolf and Polly the butterfly and this is our most populated show! All characters are played or portrayed by Patrick Lynch in a show full of quick changes, magical disappearances and a host of excitable woodland creatures.
When Birdy does hatch out of his egg to say hello our audience really feels that they helped Birdy finally come into the world.
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ROOM IN THE SKY
Usually actors know what they are doing but when Mr Rossi turns up to do this show with Mr Lynch it always goes wrong. Mr Rossi hasn't learned his lines and doesn't even know how the theatre works. What's worse, he doesn't even speak English! Every time Mr Lynch tries to start the show Mr Rossi always messes things up and they take off in a different direction. As Mr Lynch shows Mr Rossi how the theatre works they play with and distill all the usual theatrical conventions, creating new magic for the audience. They pull and stretch out light and throw it around, catching it between their fingers. Sound effects suddenly become real and explode on the stage. Shadows become solid and solid things become insubstantial and we see the actors pass through them.
As they struggle with each other to get somewhere they take the audience on a fantastic journey passing by shrinking desert islands, some frantic Shakespeare and a storm at sea. The audience are invited on stage and the show spills out into the auditorium collecting them up for a giant size instant photograph.
This is a show all about the theatre and the wonderful things that an audience and actors can create – together.
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THE FISH'S WISHES
We all know what it feels like to be a fish out of water but our hero really is one in this bubbly show!
A little fish who lives in a glass of water gets knocked over by the cat and finds himself suddenly in our airy world of up and down populated by strange creatures like the hoover-fish and books full of fire. Our little fish has lots of questions like 'how do you breathe with air?', 'Where do they keep the water?' and 'why is the sky blue?'. Just like many small creatures we know and love he needs answers and he needs them now.
This is philosophical cabaret for the very young presented with grace and poetry and a good dose of the surreal. Accompanied by our amazing theatre toys - like an umbrella with built-in rain, a bowl full of stars and a pot full of bubbles – Patrick Lynch floats through a show full of laughs, surprises and some real scientific explanations where our young audience finally get some of their constant questions answered.
'If your tears are salty it's not a surprise, it's just the sea coming out of your eyes!'
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KNICK KNACK AND DOO DAD
Take Castaway, the Marx Bothers and It's a Wonderful Life, mix them all up and you get this story which shows us that no man is an island.
Knick lives on a big smelly island of rubbish all by himself and spends all day sorting through our crud and clinker – it's not a wonderful life! But it all changes when Doo Dad arrives. He's here to help, but actually ends up making everything worse. If only he could show Knick what friends are for he knows that the rubbish dump would burst into flower – but how do you help someone like Knick who doesn't want to be helped? And should you?
We want you to help us decide and to join in with the rubbish storm, the crying chorus, and with making bubbly fire and ha-ha food in this highly interactive show about how silly it is to be sad. We'll have great fun as we transform our trash into amazing new toys and reboot your recycling routine into something special. Come along and discover all the reasons to be cheerful and find out what finally makes Knick Knack smile!
"Theatrically inventive… sublime acting." Birmingham Post
"A charming spectacle… a great kids show ... the dynamic duo mastered the art of clowning brilliantly... Their knockabout antics had their intended audience hooting with laughter, jumping up and down in their seats and clapping along to music by Cialdo Capelli. the perfect level of humour for children to thoroughly relish. It was evident that each and every child was left utterly mesmerised by the performance, some claiming that they would give it '50 Billion out of 5'!" Whatsonstage.com
CIRCUS MINIMUS
This is Lyngo's second in-the-round show for the very young.
Roll up, crawl up and toddle up to the smallest biggest Circus in the world! General Tom Thumb is your ringmaster and once your are settled in our circular circus it's time for the show to begin. And you are the show! There is nothing more spectacular than the breathtaking feats of a family - Mums spinning plates, Dads flying by the seat of their pants, little clowns and tiny tigers. We put you in the ring and let you do your thing! Like all our shows for the very young you can either relax on our cushions or get up and into the spotlight. In this guided interactive journey through domesticity we start in the garden with the sheep parade and head for the dining room where we serve up the sun and the moon on our giant tablecloth. Instantly we find ourselves in bed where it's time to dream of the ocean of night and the sparkling star fish while a flying jellyfish looks down on us, waving luminous tentacles. Circus Minimus will show you that you are having the greatest adventure possible – being a family.
"There's a high level of child involvement and (a) delight in imaginative participation … This is theatre that works through, and enhances, young audiences' understanding." reviewsgate.com
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WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
For the last of our trilogy of early years shows we've gone all-out. Our first show was about a tiny egg, our next about family life and now we look at the whole of creation! But before anything new is made it must be dreamed. From our moon-base in the Sea of Tranquility we get a great view of the earth and it's time to make a new one just like we do every night! What shall we put in tomorrow's world? Snowballs and flamingos of course! So all aboard the sleeper train as it takes us on our dream voyage. We start with putting the stars in the sky and move through history, discovering fire all over again and finally arriving at the one-world tree where we celebrate the new world that we made all together. This is an amazing romp through the universe where you can get your hands on the stuff of creation!
"The careful respect given to the young audience members is reflected in the concentration with which they become involved in making this Wonderful World." reviewsgate.com
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EGG AND SPOON
Our first special theatre show for the early years. The very young won't sit still to watch a show and we don't expect them to. Egg and Spoon is an interactive romp through the seasons where you come in and out of our magic circle and get to open all the gifts of nature. Percy and April get you settled on our comfortable cushions and introduce you to Birdy, still hiding in his glowing egg. We have to wait till Spring if we want to see him so it's time to begin our hands-on journey through the year with flocks of real flying birds circling around our special growing tree. We'll run through the rain and the falling leaves and sleep under the snow till Spring wakes us up for the butterfly party. This show has delighted children all over the world from New York to Singapore and when Birdy does come out they all want to give him a little stroke and a feed. Egg and Spoon is a perfect gentle introduction to the magic of theatre.
"Most important is the company's ability to work at a pace and with a simple directness that gains genuine responses and involvement from very young people (…)There's nothing to frighten, everything to enjoy, right up to the final moment when (without a spoon in sight) the egg hatches and a new chick emerges to greet the audience, and the world." reviewsgate.com
"Suitable for even the shortest attention spans." The New York Times
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