GARDENER’S APPRENTICE

An immersive storytelling experience for young people and their grandparent or favourite elder

Developed with the support of Sydney Opera House and Carriageworks

Ages 8 - 99 | Gardener’s Apprentice is an interactive storytelling experience built by the performers AND the participants, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life.

Led by Force Majeure performers, young people aged 8+ and their nanna, yeye, aka, pop, or favourite adult will move through landscapes of stories and adventure together in the live creation of the narrative, unleashing the inner performer in both the child and the child-at-heart.

Gardener’s Apprentice is a fantastical Hero’s Journey for young ones to enter into, drawing upon the wisdom of their grandparents or elders to reveal the magic we can learn from each other, and inspiring deeper connections between generations.

This brand-new intergenerational work is designed to be experienced in partners of one adult (our “Gardeners”) and one child (our “Apprentices”). Each pair will share stories with each other, move, dance, play, explore, imagine and laugh together.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Gardener’s Apprentice is a participatory experience and light movement is required, always taken at your own pace and within your ability. Our adult Gardeners should come in comfortable clothes for some light seated movement, and our young Apprentices should come ready to take their shoes off for moving across the space, constructing visual images with their bodies, and creating special memories with their elders.

CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept/Director 
Danielle Micich

Associate Director, Devisor and Performer 
Elle Evangelista

Performer
Gabrielle Chan, Mym Kwa

Video and Sound Designer
David Bergman

Lighting Designer
Kate Baldwin

Stage and Production Manager
Madelaine Osborn

Costume Designer
Tracy Datson

Access Consultant
Debra Keenahan

Development Contributor 
Solomon Thomas

Images by Ashley de Prazer

How To Grow Your Garden
Creative Development Showing

Presented by Sydney Opera House

13 & 15 February 2025
Centre for Creativity, Sydney Opera House

Ages 4 - 99 | We invite you to join us for a special behind-the-scenes sneak peek and creative development workshop of How To Grow Your Garden; a brand-new multi-generational show by Force Majeure.

How To Grow Your Garden is an immersive story built by the performers AND the participants, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life.

Part performance, part installation, part movement workshop, this all-immersive experience is designed for pairs of people from different generations. This is for anyone and their favourite elder.

Be ready to be immersed in a story, move, share, play, explore, imagine and laugh.

Devised theatre is a method of creating a performance that works completely collaboratively with all artists in a rehearsal room. People attending this event will be involved in a rare experience seeing an excerpt of a devised work while the artists are mid-process of creation. 

Attendance is free but bookings are essential.

Currently in development and due for production in 2025. Get in touch to discover more about How To Grow Your Garden.

 

Force Majeure respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, seas, waterways and skies where we work and we pay our respect to Elders both past and present. We recognise that our office is located on Gadigal Land. We are privileged to gather on this Country to share knowledge, culture, art and storytelling now, and with future generations.