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Applause Outdoors 212

Applause Outdoors 212 is a programme of outdoor performances by artists working with PANeK. Shows will be programmed by our partners, Applause Rural Touring, into a wide range of festivals, fetes and other community events across Kent and East Sussex during Summer 2012.

Little Cauliflower Theatre

The Machine

For 3000 years Professor Allen’s Machine has travelled around the world planting all the trees, the grass, the flowers and chocolate pie. Sorry, not chocolate pie. This morning, for the first time ever, he called in sick (he has a very poorly tummy and he might be gone sometime). His two bumbling assistants have been left in charge. They’re completely useless and they need your help!

“Completely brilliant, I have never seen anything like it”
Audience Member, Whitstable Oyster festival

The Machine is a 25 minute piece of interactive street performance and engages the audience in a new and innovative way. The performers use suggestions from the audience to help them fix the machine which is powered by bicycles and over 3 meters tall. The audience sit on the bicycles and pedal in order to animate the machine building to a finale where sunflower seeds pour out for every child to take home and plant. The show is entirely family friendly without being exclusively aimed at children.