Are children and adults sometimes the same? What does adulthood really mean? And what kind of things do we both find funny?
With slapstick, humour and a lot of green slime, this clever and surprising performance offers us a chance to see the world through the others’ eyes.
Made In China have created a show performed with 8-year-olds and adults that playfully explores these questions. Using the format of the comedy duo, an adult double act and child double act try to take control of the stage; they joke, mirror and test each other, they reverse roles and they subvert expectations.
“A magnetic mix of mayhem, slime and wild dancing”
– The Guardian
“Brilliantly subversive...so unfathomably, hilariously different that it’s almost hard to imagine how it was allowed to happen.”
“Double Double Act feels like the live-action version of [Zzzap]… slapstick, silly.. surreal… it is interesting to see a play that unashamedly and predominately caters to young people’s sensibilities… Once seen it will never be forgotten.”
“Truly transformative”
– Exeunt
Commissioned by the Unicorn Theatre
Produced by: the Unicorn Theatre
Producer : Beckie Darlington
Created by: Christopher Brett Bailey, Tim Cowbury and Jessica Latowicki.
Cast: Jessica Latowicki, Christopher Brett Bailey, Seb Booth/Caspian Tarafdar and Nayana Crowe/Caitlin Finley
Design: Emma Bailey
Lighting Design: Alex Fernandes
Sound Design by Lewis Gibson
Rehearsal direction: Dominique Collet
Workshop direction: Emma Higham
Photography: Camilla Greenwell