Sensory Cinders is a new sensory pantomime adaptation of Cinderella for audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities, featuring original music that explores themes of identity, self-expression, transformation, magic, personas, authenticity, and connectedness. What does it mean to pursue self-love and understanding in a world that doesn’t understand you?
The Turtle, the Monkey, and the Bird have all lost their home. Now they’re forced away to fend for themselves, make their own new homes.
The Whispering Jungle, brings together ASMR, sensory play and sensory puppets in an immersive touring production for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Astronauts – Planet Earth needs you! Alex and dad, Gareth haven’t been getting on too well lately.
After the death of his mother, Alex has thrown himself into writing his stories; his newest one is about space, but his Dad thinks all of his stories are childish. With the help of Lena, their new babysitter, Alex and his dad go on an adventure to the moon and back and together they save the world along with your help too! Travel through a meteor shower, make a wish upon a star and visit Mars and the moon!
It’s winter: the days are shorter, the trees are looking bare and the temperatures have plummeted. But…there’s no snow! The Snow Machine in Winter Wonderland has broken and, if it can’t be fixed, winter will be ruined forever!
But all is not lost. Jack Frost and the Snow Queen have heard that you, the winterns at home, can help them? Can you work out why it’s broken? Will you help Jack and Snow mend it and save winter? And does yellow snow really taste like chicken?
Shebaa the Sheep has never had any wool! She spends her days feeling different from all of the other sheep in her herd and it makes her feel very sad. After finding a book at her local library, Shebaa goes on a quest to meet the world’s most intelligent and wise creature in all of the land; The Wisdom Cow of Jopplety How in the hope that he can grant her one wish, to have a coat of wool her lamb friends would envy. Join Shebaa as she goes on an adventure, meets other furry friends on the way and learns that there are differences in the most unlikely of places.
As a research-led organisation, Concrete Youth's work is always underpinned by research, ensuring that our output is always supported by the latest methodologies to deliver the most accessible and cutting edge work for audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Our research projects include The ASMR Project in 2021 and, currently, Blueprint, exploring how we can deliver more individualised and bespoke sensory theatre opportunities for audiences labelled with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
