If Not Here… Where?
Theatre - 2020
Produced by the Little Angel Theatre
If Not Here… Where? is a puppet show that is designed to be be performed to children and young people in hospitals at their bedside. This allowed young patients and their families to access theatre even while they were in hospital.
The show also worked along a specially created app that gave young people the ability to make choices that would effect what would happen next in the story.
In it’s 2020 tour, If Not Here…Where? visited 12 children’s hospitals / wards and 3 hospices across the UK including Great Ormond Street, London; Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh; and Noah’s Ark Hospice, Barnet.
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“Every single patient found it a magical experience.”
— Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
“The storytelling totally captivated the audience, and the opportunity for children and young people to make choices throughout was particularly powerful in a hospital setting.”
— St George’s Hospital, London
“This was an exceptionally positive experience. It was a pleasure to welcome the Little Angel to the ward. The show was so appropriate, universal, warm, gentle and engaging. It is rare to see work of this quality.”
— Royal United Hospitals, Bath
“This is more than amazing. Beautiful, creative, educational, resonating.”
— Audience member
If Not Here… Where? was produced by Little Angel Theatre in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, with funding from BBC Children in Need and NESTA. Inspired by stories and ideas from inpatients, outpatients and the Young People’s Forum at GOSH.