See this stage show: Kindur

If there are sheep on stage, then chances are you’re watching the school’s annual nativity play and your little thespian has been overlooked for one of the plumb, non-baaing parts.

But in this interactive performance presented by Crying Out Loud, the sheep are the stars of the show. The title, Kindur, is Icelandic for sheep, and the performance charts the seasonal migration of Icelandic sheep as they wend their way across a dramatic landscape of volcanoes, waterfalls and glaciers.

Three dancers lead the performance, while members of the audience are each given a woolly heart-shaped badge. When their badges glow red, it's time to trot up onto the stage and join in the journey.

Italy’s acclaimed visual theatre company TPO are the architects of amazing special effects, using a pressure sensitive floor and amazing projections to conjure a fantastical world, where trolls and elves lurk and the Northern Lights magnificiently blaze across the sky.

And there’s not a homemade cotton wool costume in sight.


Kindur: The adventurous life of Icelandic sheep is on National Tour May 10–June 23.
Catch it at:
Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival, Burnton Theatre, Musselburgh May 10–12

Eden Court, Inverness May 16

Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth May 19

Norfolk And Norwich Festival May 23–26

The Core, Corby as part of the Jump In festival June 8

Lakeside arts Centre, Nottingham as part of the Jump In festival June 9–10

Droichead Arts Centre, Louth, Ireland June 13

Draiocht Blanchardstown Dublin, Ireland June 17, 18

Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork, Ireland June 21, 22, 23


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