Cassie and the Lights
Can kids be parents? From the team behind the multi award-winning We Live By The Sea (Best Theatre, Critic's Choice and Peace Foundation Awards, Adelaide Fringe 2017) comes a funny and uplifting story of childhood and adulthood, responsibility and fun, accompanied by live original music and projection.
When Cassie’s mother leaves in the night, the teenager wants to care for her younger sisters on her own. But is Cassie the right person to be "Mum" now, or should she let their foster parents adopt her sisters, and create a new family?
Based on real-life events and interviews with children in care, Cassie and the Lights examines our ideas of what makes a family, and celebrates the incredible determination and resilience of teenagers.
London based Patch of Blue's accolades include Best Theatre of the Year and Critic's Pick in the New York Times; The Guardian Top 6 Shows to see at Adelaide Festival and the Excellent Play award at the Central Academy Awards, China.
The press on 'We Live By the Sea'
★★★★★ British Theatre Guide
★★★★★ Adelaide Theatre Guide
★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★★ A Younger Theatre
★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★ The Stage
Presented by: Patch of Blue
"Everything a fringe show should be" The Guardian
We are a multi award winning company creating fresh, exciting and touching devised theatre with live music that allows an audience to see the world through different eyes. We present our work at festivals and through international touring, and are supported by Arts Council England. We are the recipient of the prestigious Grahame F. Smith Peace Foundation Award for promoting human rights through theatre, as well as the 'Best Theatre' and 'Critics Choice' awards at the Adelaide Festival.
Based in London, we have performed across the world in theatres and festivals, and offer workshops for schools and groups, striving to create work that is playful, fresh and moving.
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
CRITIC'S PICK a tight imaginative staging...creates an expansive world out of very little - Elizabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times on 'We Live by the Sea'
as compelling as it was visceral...a real insight, and quite superb - Richard Evans, The Advertiser on 'We Live By the Sea'