A performer in a shaggy animal-like costume and tall pink headpiece stands on a brightly lit stage before a packed audience of children.

Polka Theatre2025

Invited Audience

The Production

A January 2025 invited-audience event at Polka Theatre, the Wimbledon venue dedicated to theatre for children and families.

28 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Polka Theatre
Photography: Steve Gregson

Several performers in pale blue costumes play music and face a large seated school audience under warm stage lights.

Children in school uniforms laugh and clap in the audience, their faces lit by vivid blue and purple stage light.

A group of costumed performers stand on a decorated theatre stage with boxes, draped curtains and string lights as children watch from the auditorium.

Children in the audience react with open-mouthed surprise and excitement, some wearing paper animal ears.

A performer in a pale blue jacket leans toward the front row from a brightly lit stage as children watch closely.

A child in a white headscarf watches the performance intently, bathed in deep blue stage light among other seated children.

Performers in colorful costumes present to a seated school audience under intense red and green stage lighting.

Children in a crowded theatre audience raise their hands, including one child wearing a paper animal-ear headband.

A theatre audience of children watches attentively, with several wearing handmade paper animal-ear headbands.

A packed theatre audience of schoolchildren and adults watches the stage off to the right under vivid pink and blue lighting.

Close-up of children seated in the audience, with a boy in school uniform looking sideways toward another child in warm theatre light.

A large group of children sit attentively facing a brightly lit stage, where a casually dressed performer stands near set pieces in a haze of white light.

A child in a blue school sweater and paper headband watches intently among other children washed in deep blue theatre light.

Rows of children in the auditorium raise their hands excitedly, with adults standing near the back wall.

Children in school uniforms, some wearing yellow high-vis vests, sit near the stage edge and watch with absorbed expressions as warm lights glow in the foreground.

Children wearing paper animal-ear headbands sit with adults in the auditorium, some clapping while watching the performance.

A full auditorium of schoolchildren and adults faces the unseen stage beneath string lights and bright theatre lighting.

Under blue and magenta lighting, children in the audience gaze upward toward the stage, one boy watching with his mouth slightly open.

A girl in school uniform points toward the stage while classmates and adults around her watch under warm purple theatre light.

Children seated in a theatre audience watch intently, their faces lit warmly against rows of red seats.

A wide view of a theatre auditorium shows schoolchildren filling red seats beside a low wooden stage, with some wearing high-visibility vests.

Children in the audience wear handmade paper animal ears and watch under deep blue stage lighting.

Schoolchildren sit in a blue-lit auditorium, several gazing upward with open-mouthed amazement.

Rows of children in school uniforms, some wearing paper animal ears, watch a performance with focused expressions.

A child smiles softly from a red theatre seat among classmates and adults in the audience.

Children in school uniforms watch from the audience under an intense blue theatrical light wash.

A smiling child turns toward a classmate in a theatre row while other children watch the performance nearby.

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