InSideWays

About InSideWays

Imagine a world that is sideways…

A world where you can taste sound and feel colour.
Where straight lines wiggle, and stories don’t stay on the page.
Where creativity flows through the kitchen taps and brushing your teeth is magic.

InSideWays is a sensory show delivered straight to your door, to be unwrapped and enjoyed over 12 – 14 days. A series of playful sensory experiences, designed to share together as a family, will fill your home with sounds, music, smells, light, colour, textures and tastes. Rooms will gradually transform until your imagination has completely re-decorated! InSideWays reveals the extraordinary in the everyday.

InSideWays is an accessible At Home show from the award-winning pioneers of Sensory Theatre, Oily Cart (UK), Sweden’s trailblazing sensory producers Scen:se, and regional theatres Folkteatern Gävleborg and Estrad Norr. Created for and with disabled young people and their families, InSideWays explores how new ways of playing together can change the way we see our homes and each other. 

The Bowen family have experienced all of Oily Cart’s At Home shows, and are now collaborators on InSideWays. Read mum Sam’s blog: The Importance of At Home Shows: Making Theatre Accessible for Everyone

• How does InSideWays works?

  InSideWays is a show with no performers, just beautifully-crafted sensory objects and activities, a soundtrack, and instructions, so that your family can bring the magic to life together in the privacy of your home. YOU go on the adventure, and have your own unique and magical journey through the ‘SideWays World’. 

  Our At Home shows are especially created for and with disabled young people and their families who experience barriers to attending live performance. InSideWays has been made with the same budget and resource as a touring theatre show: the contents of each InSideWays experience are worth the equivalent of £1250. So, what you’ll receive is not a compromised version of ‘real’ theatre – InSideWays is the real thing, in its best version. From us to you!
   

  The Bowen family have experienced all of Oily Cart’s At Home shows (and are now collaborators on this one!). You can read more about At Home shows and what the family experience is like in this blog by Sam Bowen: The Importance of At Home Shows: Making Theatre Accessible for Everyone 

• What is included in InSideWays?

  Sensory objects and activities that have been carefully created by sensory experts, from an award-winning multi-sensory chef to a tactile craft artist 

  A Sensory Storybook for your family to keep 

  Easy-to-follow instructions and support to guide you through the experience 

  At Home sensory ideas so you can keep the everyday magic going after InSideWays has finished

• What do families need to know beforehand?

  • Firstly – that this is a fun, sensory show designed with families, for families. You don’t need to be ‘arty’ or into drama or anything other than yourself to enjoy the show. There’s no right or wrong way for your family to do things – just your way.
     

  • InSideWays is designed to open up all your senses. There will be activities for the adults, children and siblings in your family, some individual and some shared.
     

  • You will be sent all the information you need, plus a social story about what to expect, in advance.
     

  • All the equipment you need and clear instructions for the show are provided.
     

  • You do not need a big space.
     

  • No performers will come to your home.
     

  • You will not be made to act, sing or perform. 

• What will happen during InSideWays?

  After booking: You will be sent a survey so the show can be personalised to your family.

  About 2 weeks before: You will receive a Starter Pack. This includes a Guide with all the information you need and a social story, and a Sensory Storybook with the story of the show
   

  Delivery day: A colourful chest of drawers containing the InSideWays show will be hand-delivered to your home
   

  The next 12-14 days: Enjoy InSideWays in the comfort of your own home, at your own pace, and in your own way! Inside the chest of drawers are a series of playful sensory activities that will take you on a wonderfully wiggly adventure of tasty sounds, toothbrush discos, and stories that won’t stay on the page. Bit by bit, sounds, music, smells, light, colour, textures and tastes will gradually transform your home, until it’s filled with sensory fun and magic! 

  Pick-up day: InSideWays will be collected, and you will be left with lots of lovely memories! You can also keep the everyday magic going using the At Home sensory ideas included in the Guide. 

• UK and Sweden organisation credits

  FOR OILY CART

  Ellie Griffiths
  Artistic Director

  Zoë Lally
  Executive Director

  Alison Garratt
  Tours Producer
  

  Maka Marambio de la Fuente 
  Access and Wellbeing Officer
  
  Flossie Waite
  Communications and Advocacy Officer

  Zhaolin Zhao
  Development Officer

  Mor Kestin 
  Production Manager

  Romica Sharma
  Administrator

  Lucy Bowen
  Youth Associate 2025

  Binita Walia, The Space inBetween
  Press Representative

  FOR FOLKTEATERN GÄVLEBORG
  

  Eva von Hofsten
  Artistic project manager Scen:se

  Johanna Westlin
  Producer

  Jens Mellqvist
  Producer

  Anna-Karin Berglund
  Communications Strategist
  

  Johan Strand
  Communications and Graphic Design

  Linnéa Manzanares
  Communications
  

  Linnea Bäck
  Communications
  
  Thomas Andersson
  Stage Manager, Technical Coordinator

  Anna Sörell
  House Technician

  Andreas Dahl
  Drama pedagogue Scen:se

  Gro Oskarson Kindstrand
  Artistic Director

  Marcus Hellsten
  Executive Director

  
  

  FOR ESTRAD NORR

  Christina Seldahl Lindgren
  Producer
  
  Tomas Nyqvist
  Producer

  Linnea Lundberg
  Performing Arts pedagogue
  
  Frida Laurin Carlsson
  Communications