Oily Cart co-founders Claire de Loon, Tim Webb and Max Reinhardt. Photo: Benjamin D. Cooper
Parent Odessa: ‘Sound Symphony’ and making shows for and with young people
Composing a Jamboree short documentary
The Whole World is Watching from Jamboree (2019/20)
Stepaway from All Wrapped Up (2019)
Claire de Loon retired from Oily Cart in 2016, and Max Reinhardt and Tim Webb in 2018.
The company welcomed Ellie Griffiths (Artistic Director) and Zoë Lally (the company’s first-ever Executive Director) as the new joint chief executives, and a new chapter began. In their shared vision, all our shows would be made both for and with young people and their families, with disabled people represented in all areas of our work both on stage and behind the scenes.
In 2015, we mounted an exhibition of our celebrated design work. As the company’s Head of Design until her retirement in 2016, Claire de Loon designed most of the Oily Cart shows, developing our innovative, immersive sensory wonderlands for theatres, schools, hydro-pools, sandpits, trampolines and even up in the air.
Ring A Ding Ding (2011). Alicia McKenzie as Alice with her puppet on her bike. Photo: Amanda Webb
The Moon Goes Round (Our Story’s Just Begun) from Ring A Ding Ding (2011)
Jog on from In A Pickle (2012)
Who’s In The Pram from Hippity Hop (2004)
Kunondingo from Hush-A-Bye (2017)
Throughout the years, all the different threads of our work fed into and expanded each other, with the ultimate aim of developing properly diverse audiences. As well as shows made specially for very young audiences and disabled audiences, and work that toured to specialist schools, we made lots of what the founders called ‘all-comers’ shows: shows to which all were welcome, touring mostly to theatres and other public venues. In 2011 we toured a favourite ‘all-comers’ show: Ring A Ding Ding.
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