Playful, vibrant and language free children’s theatre show SPLAT! Is delighted to be hitting the road on a UK tour from May to August 2025. SPLAT! is a high-energy physical comedy about art, creativity and collaboration and it’s heading to 25 destinations across the country in 2025.
Created for children aged three to seven (and their grown-ups), this playful and engaging production was devised in collaboration with award winning deaf artist, filmmaker and performer Brian Duffy who co-created Small World the first sitcom in British Sign Language. It is completely accessible for deaf audiences, non-English speaking audiences and small children who are yet to get to grips with words as no language is spoken throughout.
SPLAT! takes place inside a vibrant artist’s studio where two aspiring painters – one neat, precise, and serious, the other chaotic, messy, and full of mischief – must learn to work together. As they navigate their artistic differences, they take the audience on a journey through the history of art from ancient cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
This journey is full of clowning, movement and slapstick comedy, creating an interactive and sensory-rich experience and a stage that starts pristine and ends in a glorious explosion of colour and mess. Young audiences are invited to engage, explore, and celebrate their own creative instincts and to enquire about the vibrant, messy world that has been created before their eyes.
SPLAT! explores themes of collaboration, play and spontaneity, all through a wordless, visually striking performance packed with colour, music, and surprises.
Production and Creative Team
Director/Lead Creative: Jack Kelly
Devisers/Performers: Althea Burey, Will Bliss, Joey Timmins, Elf Lyons, Joey Robinson Holden, Matt Willis, Johnny Macaulay, Jock Maitland, Karina Garnett, Luke Pitman
Movement Directors: Brian Duffy, Justyna Janisewska & Georgia Tegou
Technical Manager and Lighting Designer: Berta Pibernat Trias
Run time: 55 mins
