Check Out! is a wickedly funny work of theatre about the consumer culture bonanza. Set in a supermarket, Check Out! follows the remarkable adventures of tantrum-throwing Baby who is determined to get what she wants. Filled with puppetry at its most inventive and cheeky, Baby soon meets shelf products which come to life, and Speedy who helps her discover that you need more than just stuff to see you through.
Fast paced and physical, Check Out! is a very funny and ever-so-scathing take on parent/child relationships and the market power invested in children. Designed as a cure for affluenza, Check Out! is a muzak-filled slapstick puppet tale which will make sure that a trip to the supermarket will never be the same again.
Entranced by the lure of a chocolate bunny, Baby runs away from her Dad, gets lost in the Supermarket and meets Speedy, who lives in the supermarket. Baby swaps her beloved toy Ivan with Speedy and, in return, can have all the products she wants. As life at the top becomes sugar fuelled and dangerous, she realises that having everything is not all it's cracked up to be. On the run from shelf stackers, the Manager and the products themselves, Baby battles for survival in the supermarket and realises that life is not just about ‘I want, I want'..
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Check Out Technical Specs
Checkout! can be performed as a theatre production or a school hall production.
The theatre production works on a larger scale. It has a larger set, lighting and an extra performer.
The tech requirements for a theatre production are -
Audience - Children 5 - 12 and families
Length of show - 45 mins (plus optional 15 mins for Q&A) - No interval
Lighting - Plan provided, will fit on most standard rigs.
Sound - In house system (USB, mini disc or CD capabilities)
Stage Requirements - 8m x 8m stage needed, minimum 3m height.
Time - 6 hour bump in including tech run. 1 hour bump out.
The tech requirements for a school hall production -
Audience - Children 5 - 12 and families
Length of show - 45 mins (plus optional 15 mins for Q&A)
Lighting - General in house lighting
Sound - Polyglot to bring audio player
Stage Requirements - 8m x 8m stage needed, minimum 3m height.
Time - 1 hour bump in, 1 hour bump out.
- Puppets @ Fed Square with Artplay - school holiday program
Polyglot's Rod Puppet Workshops feature as part of the Puppets @ Fed Square with Artplay program these school holidays.
- TAP Residency Kicks OffJacob Boehme has started his TAP Residency. He will keep you posted with his Artist's blog. We will also be posting photo's of the work in progress.
- We Built This City - Warrnambool Fun4Kids festival
Our public construction extravaganza We Built This City got underway at the Warrnambool Fun4Kids Childrens Festival this weekend and runs until Sunday.
Performances are 10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm, starting Sunday 30 June and run through to Sunday 7 July.
- Check Out! visual arts exhibition
Polyglot's artist Mischa Long has worked with children from the Currajong School to create a visual representation of our new show Check Out!.
The exhibition is currently on show at the Phoenix Park Library, corner of Rob Roy Road and Ivanhoe Grove, Malvern East and running until the 27 June.
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