Developing Treekin From Seedling To Show

Treekin is a joyful, wordless performance for ages 0-6, bringing the natural world to life through playful puppetry, beautiful music and imagination.

Treekin has been shaped by outdoor adventures, school partnerships, and conversations with young audiences.

In November 2025, Trigger undertook two weeks of R&D to develop Treekin led by Angie Bual with collaborators Josh Elwell, Arran Glass, and Jelaine Ng Sha-Men, exploring nature connection, eco consciousness, and personifying trees. Dr Verity Jones (UWE) grounded the work in her research into young people’s climate anxiety.

We created a workshop for ages 6–7 on connection, care, and compost, piloting it through five North Somerset school sessions that combined playful outdoor music-making with listening to children’s perspectives on nature.

R&D continued in Spring with a week of puppetry workshops in a Norwich primary school via the Norfolk & Norwich Festival Connect & Create Programme. We then welcomed performer Hannah Goudie-Hunter to the project and created a work-in-progress sharing for Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2026.

In October 2026, development culminated in a final week of R&D, bringing together performer Onioluwa Taiwo, sound designer Rowan Bishop, and production manager Becky Vowles to shape the production. We presented sharings at We The Curious in Bristol and in two primary schools in Yeovil, delivered in partnership with Yeovil Art Space.

If you are a festival or programmer interested in booking Treekin for 2027 and would like a tour pack, please contact our Producer Letty Gardner: letty@triggerstuff.co.uk