The Tree of Light

By Ceridwen Dovey /  A radical reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl

Ceridwen Dovey’s The Tree of Light begins on the last day of the year 3099. The leader of the Moonfolk – an elder at the age of 12 – asks you to pause your ceaseless survival work to join her in the giant, hollow trunk of the last remaining tree on the Moon. She invites you to do something unthinkable – something that your ancestors, the Earthkind, once had the luxury to do: listen to a story that might lead you on the long journey home.

Grandmother Tree is the only living link left between the old ways and the new. She carries memories of her Treekind back home, and of the Earthkind, too — one young girl in particular, whose curiosity and courage in the face of hardship Grandmother Tree has never forgotten: the little match girl, the one who climbed high into her branches seeking honey. It is her story that Grandmother Tree wants you to hear.

The Tree of Light is the third piece in the triptych A Concise Compendium of Wonder.

Multi-award-winning theatre company Slingsby welcomes you to a colony on the moon. Through mirrored surfaces, inventive lighting, and theatrical magic, be transported into a bold, futuristic new world of outer space before being gently returned to Earth.

Age recommendation: This production has been created for audiences aged 8+ and contains images, sounds, and characters that may be frightening to younger children.