IMAGINE Live

IMAGINE Live

Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.

 Tuesday 22 & Wednesday 23 July

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This performance is part of SEASON 2025.

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By Jolyon James, based on the book ‘Imagine’ by Alison Lester

Magical and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world. With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought.

Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes.

IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large-scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in real time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.

Created by the multi-award winning team from Robot Song, IMAGINE LIVE is a 55 min interactive musical performance for families...Nana’s are especially welcome!

Writer / Director / Designer - Jolyon James 
Composer / Musical Director - Nate Gilkes 
Assistant Director / Actor - Ashlea Pyke
Actor / Digital Puppeteer - Phillip McInnes
Actor - Aubrey Flood
Author of ‘Imagine’ - Alison Lester
Publisher of ‘Imagine’ -  Allen & Unwin

Logos - Creative Australia, NCM, Geelong Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsula and Riverside Theatre

“IMAGINE LIVE is a delight! With incredible puppetry, mesmerising visuals and a stunning score, my friends and I – and more importantly their children – laughed, clapped, yelled at the stage and left with huge smiles on our faces!” - Audience Member

Are you a teacher bringing students to this performance?

Subject links: English, Creative Arts (Drama, Music) Critical  and Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding.

To book a school group and/or for more information about the programs for young  people offered by the Civic Theatre:  https://civictheatre.com.au/education

To go straight to completing a booking form to  see this show:  WWCT_2025_Education_Fillable_Form

Download Education Resources to extend your experience into the classroom.

In English

Wheelchair accessible: for wheelchair or accessibility requirements, or if you anticipate needing assistance from a staff member on the day of the event, please contact the Box Office on 02 6926 9688 or email boxoffice@civictheatre.com.au

National Companion Card accepted: for more information on companion card eligibility go here - https://tinyurl.com/WWcompanioncard. To organise a companion ticket contact the Box Office on 6926 9688 or boxoffice@civictheatre.com.au

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Subscribing

This performance is part of SEASON 2025. 

Choose four (4) shows from the sixteen (16) on offer. Enjoy multiple benefits including discounted tickets, the option to exchange to another Season show and the ability to pay as the year unfolds.  For more information hit the Subscribing button.


Date & Time:

Tuesday 22 July, 10:00am & 1:00pm
Wednesday 23 July, 10:00am & 1:00pm
Foyers, Box Office and Bar open one hour before the show starts.


Duration:

55 minutes (no interval)


Ticket Prices:

One price $29.00
Group $25.00
Civic Theatre Subscriber $25.00
Civic Theatre Member $25.00
School group $20.00


Restrictions

Recommended ages 3yrs - 11yrs & their families


Venue:

Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
Burns Way off, Tarcutta St, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650


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