In orbit around children

"Moonstruck Astronaut is a theatre company that stages plays for and with children and their communities that delight in unusual ideas. Our mission is to create performances that encounter life from a child’s open-minded perspective of wonder in order to foster intergenerational and intercultural friendship."

- Hannah Pantin
Founder and Artistic Director

Current job vacancies for a Producer and a Production Manager: email CV's to moonstruckastronauts@googlemail.com by 22nd June 2009.

Latest Productions

The Man in the Moon

The Man in the Moon by Jack Healy, stage play by Jack Healy and Enda Walsh, is the first project of Moonstruck Astronaut theatre company, and had its first showing in February 2009. It is an ingenious, sensitive, touching piece about the process of bereavement as seen through the eyes of a ten-year old boy who happens to be a balloon. It had never been staged before and has been made into a sell out puppet play in collaboration with the children of Deptford and funded by the Arts Council and Lewisham Council.

Update It was selected for the Central School of Speech and Drama's International Student Puppet Festival in March 2009. We are currently planning a tour of the production for later in the year.

More information about the Man in the Moon...

Photographs of performances from the Albany, February 2009 | taken by Jennie Albone

Our Mission

  1. To serve the community of Lewisham.
  2. To promote community cohesion.
  3. To encourage intergenerational and intercultural dialogue.
  4. To inspire creativity and confidence among the young and old.
  5. To find and fill in the gap in supporting local children’s creative development up to the age of 18.
  6. To involve adults in the borough of Lewisham in creating performances with and for their community’s children.
  7. To attain a consistent standard of creative excellence.

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