Key information
Saturday 5 October
Corn Exchange
2pm, doors open 1.30pm
£12/£10/£36 members and concessions/family ticket
Seated
| A tale of the eternal quest for love, identity and belonging. Fearless and free, Mowgli the ‘man-cub’ finds fun and friendship despite learning to live by the Law of the Jungle. Join Indigo Moon Theatre as they take you through a daring adventure in their latest adaptation of Jungle Book. Inspired by Kipling’s novel, inventive shadow puppet theatre, original music and mesmerising technicolour projections take you on a magical journey. Travel through a dangerous world where Mowgli bravely faces personal and environmental challenges, overcoming fear to discover the beauty of identity and belonging, and friendships in unexpected places. Jungle Book is from Indigo Moon Theatre’s portfolio of universal stories that embrace innovative approaches to storytelling. The show brings issues around our natural world and our sense of belonging to life for younger children. Aimed at ages 4 to 11 years. A warm-hearted production for all the family. |
About Indigo Moon
Indigo Moon Theatre is best known as a Hull based Anglo-Indonesian children’s shadow puppet theatre company that has toured nationally and internationally to theatres, festivals and schools since 2001. Historically, their work combines traditions, techniques and styles from around the world, particularly from Europe and Indonesia. Their shows often carry important, transferable messages about the world around us.
Merging intricate colourful design, immersive original music, engaging storytelling and a combination of marionettes, rod puppets, live acting and shadow theatre – Indigo Moon Theatre brings new life to classic tales, such as Jungle Book, Aladdin and Alice and the White Rabbit, as well as creating their own original work. They have enjoyed hundreds of performances to date, as well as taking commissions for commercial ventures. You may have seen their work appear in the BBC TV programme Peaky Blinders, a Take That gig or in the latest Sir Kenneth Branagh film, A Haunting in Venice (with a spooky shadow theatre performance by IMT’s Anna Ingleby, scenery by Haviel Perdana, and characters designed by Susanna Samanek, who also designed the Jungle Book puppets). They also have a long history of educational workshops for children and adults.
Anna Ingleby
Anna studied puppetry in India and Indonesia and, with Haviel Perdana, has successfully created the Indigo Moon Theatre aesthetic of combining traditional puppetry styles with contemporary writing and theatre-making skills. Hand crafted sets, marionettes, rod puppets and shadow theatre are blended with acting and original music to share global stories with the audience.
Haviel Perdana
Haviel is an electro composer / musician, director and visual artist / painter from Indonesia. He co-devises shows, composes the music, leads workshops and creates scenery and puppets.
Keeping Things Fresh
Messages of self-belief, kindness and togetherness underpin Indigo Moon Theatre’s work. Contemporary issues, environmental concerns and climate change are explored, seeking to engage and inspire audiences.
Performance accessibility has always been important to Indigo Moon Theatre. Recently, they have been working to enhance audience engagement with the support of an accessibility consultant. The team is undergoing training to enable future integration of audio description within performances, offer touch tours and create safe spaces for everyone to enjoy their performances.
Looking at new ways of audience delivery and extending learning opportunities using technologies, such as Google Classroom will also enable more diverse audiences and voices to engage with their work.
Accessibility
Dorchester Corn Exchange has wheelchair access and toilet facilities for wheelchair users. If you have any specific requirements, then please let us know when booking tickets and we are more than happy to help.
Our bar
The fully-licenced bar opens half an hour before each performance.
Booking information
Tickets can currently be purchased online or by telephone. The telephone line is manned between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday. At all other times please leave your name, telephone number and ticket requirements and we will call you back.
We are not currently able to welcome visitors for advance face-to-face ticket sales.
No booking fees are charged, but a £1 Future Fund levy is included in most ticket prices to support our work. This levy is included in the published ticket price. Concessionary prices (for events promoted by Dorchester Arts): where available, these are offered to under 18s, students, those in receipt of benefits and people on low income regardless of age.
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