What's that coming into the Tate, is it a Monster?

Monster Chetwynd is proving to be the saviour of many parents - who are already finding themselves at Wit's End only a week or two into the school holidays with her Uniqlo Tate Play commission at Tate Modern.

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Part of Uniqlo Tate Play, the free programme of commissions and art-inspired activities for all ages, Chetwynd has created three fantastical sets in the Turbine Hall inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film interpretation of the Mozart opera, The Magic Flute. The project invites visitors to explore an enchanted world and take part in re-imagining scenes from this comic opera. Think puppets, costumes and music in a family-pleasing takeover.

But while this is very much for child's play, such a show does not come easy. "With it being the summer commission, I had to work out how to meet the demands," Chetwynd tells the Standard. "They kept telling me 1,000 people a day would be coming through this! So one important aspect to cope with that many people was to make my work robust enough, and to be meaningful to that many people."

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