Baby and Speedy are set to take over the supermarket in Check Out! for a homecoming season at Monash University (Frankston & Clayton) from 28 Sep to 1 Oct. This popular show recently toured to Hong Kong with sold-out shows and won the ’Excellent Production Award’ at the Shanghai International Children’s Festival. Bookings essential. Special discount for Polyglot enews subscribers - use this promotional code: "baby" when booking online or over the phone. Booking links in the next column.
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Polyglot welcomes three new puppets to the Wild Things family. But we need you to name them.  We’re running a ’separated at birth’ naming competition. Please send us a photo of your friend or relative with an uncanny likeness to our emu, koala or pelican puppets (email to info@polyglottheatre.com).  We will name the puppet after our favourite entries. The best Separated at Birth entries will win a $50 book voucher.  One entry per puppet per child (under 12 years) and closing date is Friday 10 Sept.
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Our new roving act premieres at the beautiful Australian pavillion at the World Expo in Shanghai from 27 Sep to 9 Oct. Featuring three new characters - a koala, an emu and a pelican, created by master puppet makers Graeme Davis and Tim Wells. Thanks to the Australia-China Council for supporting this tour.
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Polyglot visited the children at Whittington Primary School for the Arts2Go program launch and were very happy to meet Arts Minister Peter Bachelor who launched the Arts2Go program in front of the audience of children from Prep to Grade 6. We had great fun trying out one of the interactive effects in City of Riddles as part of the event, with a secret mobile phone delivering instructions to one child, to the delight of his friends. In the next few weeks, we will be trying out lots more of the interactivity with children from our development group and our local area of Stonnington, testing the ways in which they will be drawn into the action of the show.  Schools wanting the show for our November in-schools tour should book now!

The director of our community process installation work Our Place, in Healesville, writes: "I’m loving this project! It’s so nice to see parents interacting and genuinely sharing expression, feelings and ideas with their kids - and visa versa. Encouraged to think surreal and bizarre as well as naturalistic, participants came up with interesting responses to the challenges we set them - from skydiving on a bicycle with a friend, to living in a bird’s nest with chocolate raining down around them. Sound designers, Maddie (Flynn) and Tim (Humphreys) also led a great session about making sounds with voice to create environments - conducting us as a choir of river and bird sounds."

With three more weeks to go, the artists and participants are getting ready to present their creations in a public walk-through installation exhibition at Healesville Memorial Hall on Saturday 18 September.
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Get swept up in the magic of Syncopation by Allan Knee, directed by Broadway’s Stephen Lloyd Helper and choreographed by Dancing with the Stars’ Mark Hodge. A joyous love story about ballroom dance set in 1912 New York.
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Barking Spider Visual Theatre and La Mama for Kids present Short Pants No Holes - An interactive storytelling and puppetry experience for children (aged 6 - 11) and their families to engage and play in theatrical story-creation. Complimentary carrots, but BYO imagination! > More info

2 double passes for grabs to each show - Syncopation: Sun 12 Sept, 5pm and Short Pants: Mon 27 Sept, 2pm. Be the first two to email your contact details and the name of the show to info@polyglottheatre.com before Wed 8 Sep.

Polyglot’s Ambassadors’ Circle is an annual giving program supporting Polyglot’s artistic works, currently with 20 members, headed by its Patron Miss Betty Amsden OAM. Polyglot congratulates Betty who recently won the 2010 Melbourne Award.

Polyglot develops works in collaboration with children from marginalised communities – such as the children of Dinjerra Primary School in Braybrook who we are working with to develop City of Riddles. We offer these programs to the disadvantaged schools for free to achieve maximum accessibility, and we are seeking your help to fund this program.
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