Paper Planet

Paper Planet is a world filled with tall, strange cardboard trees, paper leaves, boulders, ponds and other mysterious shapes that inhabit any venue it spreads to. Fantastic and unusual animals and birds hang from the branches and sit around the trunks. Visitors populate the space with their own creations and rustling paper selves, eventually spreading the planet into their homes, via transport and public spaces.

Paper Planet is a constantly evolving artistic work created live by award-winning Polyglot Theatre artists, children and their families using the simplest of materials: paper and cardboard. Moving beyond audience participation, Paper Planet is experiential, tangible and wholly immersive.

Polyglot’s artists aid children with their own paper creations as they explore an out-of-this-world, constantly changing play space. A live soundscape transports everyone further into the world of delightful creatures and objects whilst working together to create and add to a fantasy Paper Planet. Guaranteed to have children totally and literally wrapped up!

Paper Planet was originally created for the annual Puppets at Fed Square at BMW Edge indoor amphitheatre from July 6 to 10 2011.

Question: How many paper people does it take to populate a Paper Planet? (Say it 10 times really fast!)

Suitable for children aged 5-12.

For enquiries, please contact:
Simon Abrahams
Executive Producer
simon@polyglot.org.au
+61 3 9827 9667