Call-Out!

“A snowstorm strikes and the DunRannoch Mountain Rescue Team go missing… Can young Ella—and her sidekick DayDay—rescue the rescuers and bring them safely home?”

“Call-Out!”, currently in research & development, is a performance-play experience for children aged 3–5 years by Arron Sparks, supported by Starcatchers. The piece’s themes include adventure, nature and the importance of community. 

This solo performance includes story-telling, small world play/puppetry, audience participation and an open play session after the story where the audience get to explore the costume, props and set.

The story is inspired by Arron’s first hand experiences volunteering for a Mountian Rescue team, famous mountain accidents and by Ella Peters, a friend of Arron’s who grew up in a remote Scottish glen in the 1990s.

The style of the piece will be absurd, playful, post-modern and committed. Call-out borrows from a long tradition of mountaineering story-telling and draws from cultural references of climbing; think “Into Thin Air“, “Touching the Void“, “Vertical Limit” meets “Grim Tales by Rik Mayall“, “Roger and the Rottentrolls“, “Tin-Tin” and “Thunderbirds” and the documentary series “Rescue”.

The project is supported by Starcatchers.