Colourful, accessible show for kids is stroke of genius

LANGUAGE-FREE SHOW ABOUT ART AND CREATIVITY IS COMING TO GUILDFORD

- By MARTIN NEAL

A COLOURFUL, physical comedy about art and creativity for kids and their families comes to Guildford next month.

Playful, vibrant and language-free, Splat! is a high-energy show created for children aged three to seven (and their grownups).

A playful and engaging production, it was devised in collaboration with award-winning deaf artist, filmmaker and performer Brian Duffy who co-created Small World, the first sitcom in British Sign Language.

It is completely accessible for deaf audiences, non-English speaking audiences and small children who are yet to get to grips with words as no language is spoken throughout.

Splat! takes place inside a vibrant artist's studio where two aspiring painters - one neat, precise and serious, the other chaotic, messy and full of mischief - must learn to work together.

As they navigate their artistic differences, they take the audience on a journey through the history of art from ancient cave paintings to modern masterpieces.

It is a journey full of clowning, movement and slapstick comedy, creating an interactive and sensory-rich experience and a stage that starts pristine and ends in a glorious explosion of colour and mess.