Imagine Live – Bondi Pavilion

It’s about Animals!… It’s about Imagination!… It’s about our Home!

Magical and meaningful, Imagine Live is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world. With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, and quickly discover there is way more to these pages than they first thought.

Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.

Imagine Live combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a largescale, multi-screen performance. 

Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in real time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, Imagine Live is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.

Created by the multi-award winning team from Robot Song, Imagine Live is a 60 min interactive musical performance for families… Nanas are especially welcome!

Suitable for ages 4+. Children under the age of 15 will require a parent or guardian to book a ticket to accompany them throughout the performance.

• “Imagine Live is a delight! With incredible puppetry, mesmerising visuals and a stunning score, my friends and I – and more importantly their children – laughed, clapped, yelled at the stage and left with huge smiles on our faces!” – Lighthouse Theatre

• “Great show. So beautiful. Our children loved this.” – Audience Member

• “The set was lovely. Such a beautiful story.” – Audience Member

• “The best I have ever seen! Loved everything about it.” – Audience Member

Credits:

• Jolyon James – Writer/Director/Designer

• Nate Gilkes – Composer/Musical Director/Musician

• Ashlea Pyke – Assistant Director/Actor

• Phillip McInnes – Actor/Digital Puppeteer

• Aubrey Flood – Actor

• ‘Nana & Soli’ – Susie Armstrong & Goldie Wood

• Benjamin Van Dillen – Production Manager/Lighting Design

• Eliza Hull – Access Consultant

• Amy Marks – Visual Supervisor

• Justin Gardam – Sound Design

• Nicholas Clark Management – Producer/Agent

• Allen & Unwin – Publisher of ‘Imagine’

• Alison Lester – Author of ‘Imagine’

Produced by Jolyon James and Nic Clark Management.

Co-producer Geelong Arts Centre

Associate Producer Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and Mornington Peninsula Shire

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body