Tiny Worlds

This project ran alongside Once Upon A Time and was created just as the theatre was about to open its doors for the very first time. Around thirty empty shoeboxes were offered to schools, community groups and theatre colleagues, each one becoming the starting point for a tiny imagined world.

Participants were invited to fill their boxes with whatever they liked - paper, fabric, found objects, miniatures, and to light them theatrically with LED lights. Drawing on memories, daydreams, stories and places that mattered to them, each shoebox became a window into a different way of seeing the world.

The idea was simple: if a shoebox can hold a world, then so can a theatre. Like the black box stage itself, these containers became spaces of transformation—proof that imagination needs very little to take flight.

Together, the collection formed a miniature landscape of dreams, celebrating the creative potential of every person who took part.