Ring a Ding Ding 2011
The Milkman (Griff Fender) with the milk float that goes round and round. Driving the float is a puppet milkman with a puppet Alice next to him. An Oily Cart production.
Photo: Patrick Baldwin.
An interactive show for 3 to 6 year olds about going around and around
“Oily Cart creates the kind of children's shows that you want to take home
and treasure forever. Its latest intimate epic for three to six-year-olds is a simple story, about a girl who loses her dog and goes to the moon to find him. But it's the way they tell them that make Oily Cart's stories so special.
This one chases its own tail delightfully in the round, where it is presented with extraordinary charm and artistry by three engaging performers, a musician who circles proceedings on his amazing melodic tricycle and a convoy of charmingly homemade puppets, bicycles, milk floats, boats and motorbikes.
This is streets ahead of most children's shows - and, in its deft use of promenade, it leaves many adult theatre companies for dust. Oily Cart's theatre space is also a playground, where pre- schoolers push their way through chiming bell-laden hoops, then sit quietly around the circular stage and help turn it round and round with their hands.
You'd imagine it would be chaos: instead, the audience is hooked, entranced and utterly persuaded to imagine themselves into the story. Quite simply, Oily Cart makes art for small children: a beguiling aesthetic experience, scaled to fit their curious world and perfectly designed to make them happy.”
CAROLINE MCGINN - TIME OUT *****
“Totally age appropriate, fantastic multi- sensory show. Makes me want to cry, it’s
so good!!! My Nursery classes have carried the show with them going ‘round and round and round’ on our bikes and tricycles, drawing circles everywhere, looking for circles and spheres everywhere, making puppets, being Alice and her dog, playing chime bars and drums along to the CD, singing the songs, talking about the Earth and the Sun etc. “
EARLY YEARS CO-ORDINATOR MICHAEL FARADAY PRIMARY SCHOOL
Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart, reflects on Ring A Ding Ding, a new show for ages 3-5, playing at The New Victory Theater.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/C7GkRCKBMJw
Short trailer for the show at The New Victory Theater in New York. A tabletop set turns ‘round and round’ as Alice and her friends search left and right, high and low for her runaway pet in this colorful and creative piece of participatory theater.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/j2IYqMkKzKE
Alice (Alicia McKenzie) with the puppet Alice on her tricycle. The children are wearing bows like Alice. An Oily Cart production.
Photo: Jack Knowles.
Ring A Ding Ding 2011. The Musician (George Panda) on the tricycle playing upcycled instruments created by Jamie Linwood as he rides around the audience. An Oily Cart production.
Photo: Patrick Baldwin.
