InSideWays

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At-home

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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 (0 – 25) and their families, InSideWays explores how new ways of playing together can change the way we see our homes and each other. 

Book InSideWays


  • When is InSideWays touring and how do I book?

    🔗 Book InSideWays

    InSideWays is touring from January – April 2026 to families in Wandsworth, North East London, Essex, Brighton and Sussex, the West Midlands, and Leicestershire and Rutland.

    The show costs £25 (including VAT). One £25 ticket covers your whole family, and includes delivery to and pick up from your home. If price is a barrier, please contact us: oilies@oilycart.org.uk. There’s more information below about what is included in the experience.

    Wandsworth
    Monday 19 January & Friday 30 January

    North East London
    (Barking and Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest)

    Monday 26 January & Friday 6 February

    Brighton and Sussex
    Monday 16 February & Saturday 28 February
    Saturday 28 February and Friday 13 March

    West Midlands
    (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Staffordshire, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton)

    Monday 9 March & Monday 23 March
    Monday 23 March & Monday 6 April

    Leicestershire and Rutland
    Tuesday 31 March and Tuesday 14 April

    We hand-deliver InSideWays to each family we visit, which means we can only tour to a certain number of areas each tour. We’re already planning for Summer 2026 and hope to visit places we couldn’t reach this time around.

  • How does InSideWays work?

    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 Welcome 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

    Creative credits can be found at the end of this page

    For Oily Cart

    Artistic Director: Ellie Griffiths
    Executive Director: Zoë Lally
    Tours Producer: Alison Garratt
    Access and Wellbeing Officer: Maka Marambio de le Fuente
    Development Officer: Zhaolin Zhou
    Communications and Advocacy Officer: Flossie Waite
    Production Manager: Mor Kestin
    Stage Manager: Laide Sonola
    Administrator: Romica Sharma
    Youth Associate 2025: Lucy Bowen
    Researcher-in-Residence: Elspeth Clark
    Placement: Nuria Cano Lorente
    PR: Binita Walia, The Space inBetween

    For Folkteatern Gävleborg

    Artistic project manager Scen:se: Eva von Hofsten

    Producer: Johanna Westlin
    Producer: Jens Mellqvist
    Communications Strategist: Anna-Karin Berglund
    Communications and Graphic Design: Johan Strand
    Communications: Linnéa Manzanares
    Communications: Linnea Bäck
    Stage Manager, Technical Coordinator: Thomas Andersson
    House Technician: Anna Sörell
    Artistic Director: Gro Oskarson Kindstrand
    Executive Director: Marcus Hellsten
    Drama pedagogue Scen:se: Andreas Dahl

    For Estrad Norr

    Producer: Christina Seldahl Lindgren
    Producer: Tomas Nyqvist
    Performing Arts pedagogue: Linnea Lundberg
    Communications: Frida Laurin Carlsson

Video trailer



InSideWays gallery

Show gallery

A young person's face is illuminated by light from a drawer they have opened, though we can't see what is inside. The adult smiles, looking at their face. A chest of drawers, except the drawers are all different colours and shapes, and are on different sides. The chest is in the middle of a living room, which is filled with plants. A young person looks at an adult's hands which are raised to make shadows against the wall. A special bulb means the shadow has colourful, overlapping outlines in purple, green, blue and pink Hands moving colourful perspex shapes over a projector screen Lilac material, with shapes and patterns made of different colours and material sewn into it. Fingers feel along a blue ribbon running down the middle.Fingers following a long blue ribbon, sewn onto lilac material. A soft, orange stuffed shape - like a cuddly toy except it's an abstract shape. It's hidden, tucked inbetween two plant pots and a window, with sunshine streaming through.

Credits

Co-Directors Ellie Griffiths and Eva von Hofsten

Designer Laura Blake

Composer and Sound Designer Bernt Karsten Sannerud

Writers Karl Seldahl, Eva von Hofsten and Ellie Griffiths

Creative Collaborators The Bowen Family, led by Lucy and Sam Bowen

Pedagogues Linnea Lundberg, Maka Marambio de la Fuente and Andreas Dahl

Illustration, Graphic Design and Devising Toya Walker

Makers Karl Jörtsö, Lisa Pernebrant, Sara Holmström, Astrid Larsson Lindh, Niklas Wiberg, Per Moneeo, Iréne Moneeo, Bernt Karsten Sannerud, Teresa Fyhr and Maja Ramberg

Dramaturgy Karl Seldahl, Rachel Bagshaw and Rhiannon Armstrong

Creative Consultants Joanna Grace and Max Alexander

Graphic Design Johan Strand

Research and Development Collaborators Annika Bromberg, Jens Gustavson, Sally Langford and Aaron McPeake

Sound recordist Chris Bullock, Simon Marchant and Adam Tavner

Voiceovers Sam Bowen, Sebastian Bergström from Teater Barda, Chiya and Lily Edelman, Ellie Griffiths, Eva von Hofsten, Claes von Hofsten, Usifu Jalloh, Saul Kirk, Lachlan Kirk, Mark Leeson, Lumi and Laura Norlin, Elisa Makarevitch and Iris Makarevitch

How InSideWays Works video performers Agnes Furuvik and Vilma Frecon

Creative Researcher Aaron McPeake

Photography Thomas van der Kaaij, Johan Strand and Tilda Persdotter

Videographers Roswitha Chesher, Paul Williams and Tilda Persdotter

With thanks to Kelly Fraser, Victoria Swan, and the Demelza Choir; South House in Faversham for use of the space; Chef Jozef Youssef of Kitchen Theory; Lotta Frecon and Anna Pella; Julie Steward; Jen Walke-Myles; April Sethi and Mia; and all the families in Sweden and the UK who were part of the show’s development.

Plus Staff from Oily Cart (UK), Folkteatern Gävleborg and Estrad Norr (Sweden). See full organisation credits in the dropdown section above

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