3. Visual Guide
The Wagon of Dreams: A New Adventure
This visual story is intended to help prepare you for your visit to “The Wagon of Dreams: A New Adventure”. Here is a short guide to what you will see if you come along and watch the show.
A small caravan. It is painted blue with colourful designs at the top. There are two mermen standing in front. They are smiling. A third actor sits on top of the caravan.
This is our caravan with the actors around it. The actors call it “The Wagon of Dreams”. Characters will come in and out of it during the show. Sometimes it rocks from side to side.
A caravan in a park. An actor stands in front of the caravan. The caravan is adapted to look like a boat. An audience is watching.
This is what our caravan looks like when it’s in a park. Sometimes shows are in parks on grass, like this. Other times, shows are in housing estates or theatres or schools. The area around the caravan may look a bit different. You can always spot where the show will be by looking at the location on our website. You can also look for where the caravan is. It will usually be surrounded by grass.
The audience sit on the grass. The area where the audience will sit is marked out by colourful cones. You can sit anywhere you would like within the cones.
You are welcome to bring a blanket, water, and anything else that would make you comfortable while you watch the show outside. You are welcome to move around at any time during the show. If you feel that you would like to leave the show at any time, you are also welcome to do this.
You can spot our friendly stewards because they are wearing high visibility jackets, that look like this:
A high visibility jacket with the word “steward” printed on the back.
The stewards are here to help before, during and after the show. If you have any questions, you can ask the stewards.
This is the side of the caravan - when the show starts, it will look like this.
A small caravan painted blue. There is a colourful pattern painted at the top. There is a ladder on the side of the caravan and a metal crow’s nest on top.
This is the front of the caravan. During the show, the actors will turn it around, and then continue the show. Music will play while the caravan is being turned.
The front of a small caravan. There is seaweed painted on the caravan and a blue fishing net.
This is what the caravan looks like when the turtle comes out. The turtle is a friendly character in the story, and a puppet (operated by actors inside the caravan, who you won’t see).
The side of a blue caravan. A puppet turtle is appearing from the caravan. An actor stands in front. He is signing “turtle”.
This is the other side of the caravan. This is the last side of the caravan that you will see in the show.
A blue caravan with orange and yellow sails on it and a life ring. An actor stands in front of the caravan. He’s wearing an inflatable rubber ring.
A blue caravan. The side is opened up so we can see inside. There is fabric draped inside to look the interior of a cave where merfolk live.
This is the set for the inside of the mercave. This is where the merfolk, characters in the show, live. Actors will open up the doors of the caravan so you can see the inside, like this picture, near the end of the show.
During the show, the actors will ask for assistants from the audience to come and help with pulling a red ribbon out of the caravan. You can volunteer to do this, but you don’t have to. The ribbon will be passed to the audience member by the giraffe puppet, and then they will pass it to another audience member.
A giraffe puppet looks out of the window of a blue caravan. He has a silky red scarf in his mouth.
A boy and a woman are pulling a long blue scarf out of a caravan window.