Show
Pram People
A moment in time for children who ride in prams, and the adults who push them.
A celebration of community, Pram People rolls out the red carpet for every pram, big or small.
Pram users assemble en masse, following curious and wonderful prompts through headphones, secret messages and even other participants. Performers delight and intrigue, adding to the fun as families weave amongst and around each other.
Pram People offers a playful and welcoming approach to community participation through joyful movement and connection, using the most universal of vehicles – the pram. Hilarious, serious and surprisingly moving, this immersive, colourful spectacle reclaims the pram as an asset to public space and society as a whole.
“I loved that the performance was not gendered. A lot of parenting stuff is all about ‘mums and dads’ which, as a non-binary parent makes me feel really excluded and invisible. This was a lovely change.” Parent
Accessibility
- Adult participants will be given headphones to wear during the experience.
- Pram People is wheelchair accessible for participants (location dependent).
Original Creative Team
- Director: Emily Tomlins
- Choreographer: Martin del Amo
- Composer and sound design: Lachlan MacLeod
- Sound design consultant: Steph O’Hara
- Designer: Jen Tran
- Design assistant: Jacqueline Tran
- Original cast: Nick Barlow, Alice Qin, Afsaneh Torabi
- Production manager: Rosie Pidd
- Stage manager: Kaite Head
- Producer: Julie Wright
- Community collaborators: The Venny, Carlton Primary School, Flemington Primary School, ArtPlay
Pram People premiered in 2022 at Melbourne Museum, as part of Melbourne Fringe.
Selected Touring History
2024
- United Kingdom: Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF), London; Barking Town Square, Creative Barking and Dagenham; Freedom Festival Hull
- WestK FunFest, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
- Joondalup Festival, WA, Australia
2023
- Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2022
- Premiere: Melbourne Fringe and Melbourne Museum, VIC, Australia
Acknowledgements
The original development of Pram People was supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative, and the City of Melbourne through the Arts and Creative Investment Partnerships fund and ArtPlay.
The 2024 premiere season of Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) was co-presented and co-produced by WestK and Polyglot Theatre, and supported by the Victorian Government through the Creative Victoria International Engagement program. The development was assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Polyglot’s 2024 UK tour of Pram People was supported by the Victorian Government through the Creative Victoria International Engagement program, and FESTIVAL.ORG’s Global Streets.
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