Theatre

  • Fringe Festival

RECESS

A theatrical memory playground packed with noughties nostalgia.

Three people sit tightly enclosed in a hollow tree made out of cardboard. They wear school polo shirts coloured blue, green and red with a school logo on them. They are holding hands and have excited looks on their faces.
Three performers wear colourful clothes in front of a large tree made out of cardboard. One performer is standing in the middle wearing a witch's hat and cloak over a red polo shirt in mid-scream. The other two performers kneel on the ground wearing a mix of fancy dress pieces over their dark school polo shirts. They are giggling and waving coloured fabric around the standing performer - pretending to 'burn the witch'.
Three performers sit on astroturf in front of a cardboard tree, smiling. They wear polo shirts of different colours with a primary school logo on each. One performer wears a bucket hat, the other two wear headbands. They have colourful school lunchbags and are eating recess snacks.
Past Event

Image Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Three people sit tightly enclosed in a hollow tree made out of cardboard. They wear school polo shirts coloured blue, green and red with a school logo on them. They are holding hands and have excited looks on their faces.
Three performers wear colourful clothes in front of a large tree made out of cardboard. One performer is standing in the middle wearing a witch's hat and cloak over a red polo shirt in mid-scream. The other two performers kneel on the ground wearing a mix of fancy dress pieces over their dark school polo shirts. They are giggling and waving coloured fabric around the standing performer - pretending to 'burn the witch'.
Three performers sit on astroturf in front of a cardboard tree, smiling. They wear polo shirts of different colours with a primary school logo on each. One performer wears a bucket hat, the other two wear headbands. They have colourful school lunchbags and are eating recess snacks.

  • Artists: Nina Mountford, Brigid Quonoey and Taylor Reece

In this place, the lines between past and future are blurred. Do you remember what it felt like to be a child?

Jacaranda tree. Tamagotchi. Rainbow Fairies. Bucket Hat. Dancing Queen. Gumnuts. Saddle Club. Hide and Seek. Friendship. Heartbreak. Euphoria. The full range of human emotion exists on this playground.

RECESS is a joyful, genre-jumping and disarmingly honest return to primary school. A new work of devised theatre by adults who were once children, exploring how we used to dream, feel and play.

Invite your inner child to join their new bestfriends in an experience of shared remembering that will have you laughing, playing and crying alongside the performers.