“IT’S ABOUT ANIMALS!”…”IT’S ABOUT IMAGINATION!”…”iT’S ABOUT OUR HOME!”
Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.
Magical and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world. With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought.
Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.
IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large-scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in real time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.
Created by the multi-award winning team from Robot Song, IMAGINE LIVE is a 55 min interactive musical performance for families…Nana’s are especially welcome!
Jolyon James – Writer / Director / Designer
Benjamin Van Dillen – Production Manager
Nate Gilkes – Composer / Musical Director
Anna Pidgeon – Stage Manager
Ashlea Pyke – Assistant Director / Actor
William McGuinness – Technician
Phillip McInnes – Actor / Digital Puppeteer
Eliza Hull – Access Consultant
Aubrey Flood – Actor
Alison Lester – Author of ‘Imagine’
Justin Gardam – Sound Design
Allen & Unwin – Publisher of ‘Imagine’
Amy Marks – Visual Supervisor
Management – Nicholas Clark Management (NCM)
The Events Centre presents a Jolyon James and NCM production.
Produced by Jolyon James and NCM.
Co Producer Geelong Arts Centre and Supported by Creative Australia.
Associate Producer Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and Mornington Peninsula Shire.
Receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.