Audience Stories
At Tall Stories we love hearing from our audiences.
These are your pages to tell us about your experiences at the theatre.
If you’d like to share your imaginative ideas and creativity then please email your photos, drawings and words to info@tallstories.org.uk
Audience Gallery
These pictures capture our young audiences and their families enjoying their time at the theatre.
Artwork gallery
Some examples of the beautiful artwork our amazing young audience members have created are displayed here.
Live-stream Gallery
In 2020 Tall Stories continued to entertain audiences by live-streaming performances of ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Snail and the Whale’.
These pictures capture happy audiences who were still able to watch our shows when theatres were closed.
My son who is 4 years old loved it. It was magical to watch his face light up and brought a lump to my throat and tears in my eyes. Well done and thank you from the bottom of my heart for making my little boy’s first experience of the theatre so very magical.
Victoria, audience member, ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’I took my 3 year-old to see the show and to say that he enjoyed it is a massive understatement. In fact, he refused to leave the theatre. He cried all the way to the car because the show was finished. He was completely bewitched. I also loved it.
Ian, audience member, ‘Emily Brown and the Thing’We came to see you in the first week of the festival with grandchildren. It was completely brilliant and they sat transfixed. It’s so reassuring to see such great work being performed and to see so many young children being taken to see live theatre. The power of theatre!
Margaret, audience member, ‘Alfie White: Space Explorer’
There was one young boy, aged 5… he couldn’t quite understand what to expect and said he didn’t really want to go because he didn’t know what the theatre was or what people did there. I sat behind him during the performance, and have never seen someone participate quite so enthusiastically! He was ‘ROAR-ing’ with the mouse, trying to throw the rope to the Gruffalo, and jumping up and down in the songs. At the end of the day – he ran up to his mum beaming, saying, ‘This was the BEST DAY EVER! I LOVE the theatre!’.
Audience member (youth leader), ‘The Gruffalo’
I’m sorry but I just had to write to you. I have just taken my two children to see The Snail and the Whale. It was simply beautiful! I wish I could express properly how moved I am and how captivated and enthralled my children were. We know the book so very well but have been totally blown away by this production.
Hilary, audience member, ‘The Snail and the Whale’
Thank you for a beautiful interpretation of a story that means a lot to my family. My husband is in the Royal Air Force and this is the story he chose to tell on his Storybook wings CD for our two daughters. We all enjoyed the show, although I did shed a few tears as the heartache of saying goodbye was very close to home. My daughters loved it all.
Audience member, ‘The Snail and the Whale’
Just had to write. We have been to see Room on the Broom in Basingstoke today with our three and a half year old daughter. It was fantastic!!! We all loved it. I just don’t know how you do it each time – you turn a much loved book into a brilliant stage show which also has humour. I think we smiled all the way through. It was brilliant! The cast are so talented and we loved the puppets especially the dog and the frog! Thank you for another fab show.
Clare, audience member, ‘Room on the Broom’