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Orange Tree Theatre rehearsal rooms2023

Parents & Babies: OT X MiniJam

The Production

Orange Tree Theatre’s Parents & Babies programme, OT X MiniJam, brought MiniJam’s live-music, storytelling and sensory early-years sessions to families in the theatre’s rehearsal rooms. The sessions were part of the OT Community programme in partnership with MiniJam.

30 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Orange Tree Theatre
Photography: Steve Gregson

Families sit in a circle waving bright scarves as a performer leads from the centre of a decorated theatre room.

A performer in black raises colourful scarves while families wave fabric around the mat.

A small child in a pink patterned dress holds a red shaker beside a seated adult.

Overhead view of families seated around a rug as performers play saxophone and lead with a puppet.

A performer sings into a microphone while playing black acoustic guitar in front of a decorated tree.

A performer holds a red melodica for a child to touch while seated adults and children gather on mats.

Hands lift a large rainbow parachute, filling the frame with bright blue, yellow, green and red fabric.

A performer kneels with a bag of colourful scarves as children gather on a rug near a decorated tree.

Close-up of a baby lying among green and orange sheer scarves, wearing a mustard striped sweater.

Performers kneel as families raise colourful sheer scarves around a circular rug.

Small child in a white fleece holds wooden percussion blocks beside a seated adult on a patterned rug.

Families sit in a circle, raising wooden percussion blocks while children stand on mats and a red rug.

Session leader uses a bubble machine as children and adults gather among floating bubbles.

Session leader blows bubbles over families seated on mats and a red rug in the theatre space.

Families sit in a circle, waving bright sheer scarves across a red patterned rug.

Adults and small children handle pink, yellow and red sheer scarves while seated on mats.

Performer holds a red melodica and tube while a child offers a soft toy.

Families hold a large multicoloured parachute with children sitting and standing around its edge.

Performer plays a red melodica toward a baby holding the keyboard, supported by an adult.

Children and adults play wooden percussion blocks while seated and standing on grey star-patterned mats.

Families sit on mats as babies interact with adults; a patterned rug and green sensory fabric lie nearby.

A performer dangles a colourful spinner above a seated baby holding red shakers, with an adult beside them.

Families sit in a circle on mats, shaking maracas and musical toys around a red patterned rug.

Bubbles float over seated families and babies in the theatre space, with blue bench seating behind.

Two babies reach toward floating bubbles while adults sit behind them on star-patterned mats.

Families sit on mats holding wooden percussion blocks, with babies and small instruments around a red rug.

A toddler in a striped headband walks across a red rug holding blue and red maracas.

A performer holds a red-and-white melodica toward a baby as families sit on mats with small instruments.

A performer kneels among toddlers as bubbles float through the room, with mats and a red rug underfoot.

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