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The move into under fives theatre was prompted by an occasion when we took
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forms. Francoise
Gerbaulet, French theatre maker, has noted "I am always deeply surprised by the seriousness of infant spectators. Babies do not understand, they absorb, the sound of voices, the music of words, anxiety, fear, grief, violence, love, they absorb them all... Babies are ideal
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Despite occasional productions derived wholly from the suggestions of very young children, TEY tends to be created by adults and never features professional baby performers, although in the UK this is technically allowable under the
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to tailor productions to the capabilities of a tightly prescribed audience (such as the pre-verbal but mobile stage between 12 and 18 months), or embracing political frameworks inspired by
Article 31 of the
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in 1981, and Oily Cart have gone on to produce at least one show a year for under-fives, although it was not until 2002 that they began making work for the youngest audiences (six months to two years), with
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and creation of theatre experiences for ever younger audiences, with almost thirty different plays now produced for the under-fives.
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to develop a workshop, and later a performance, for their children aged from 3 months to 5 years. This project, which became
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