I went to the theatre twice last week, and both times to shows for tiny kids. The first one was FINDING LEAVES FOR SOUP, Theatr Iolo's gorgeous show for nursery kids, and the other was Fevered Sleep's brilliant BRILLIANT at Sadlers Wells in London. If only more grown-up theatre had the same vision, surreality, enchantment, magic, delicacy and freedom. I took my 3 year old son with me both times, and we were equally rapt, LOVED them both - the gentle, mud-slinging, boat-floating, leaf-crunching of Iolo's (which only contains text originally spoken by 3/4 yr olds) and the much darker (literally) atonal magical other-worldly moon-filled beauty of Fevered Sleep. One show came out of children's words and ideas and stories, the other from their imaginations, fears, visions, securities... Children make dream audiences - a perfect combination of honest barometer, open minds, vocal involvement ("I like this!"), loo breaks, and ferocious clapping. Back to grown up theatre this week...