Photograph: Patrick RedmondĬreative difference aside, it’s certainly turned out fun. Scrapefoot, running until August 31st, is suitable for ages 6 and up. “You see, it was all so much fun,” Boss explains dryly. Having just turned 12, Lily Rose seems to play peacekeeper to her six-year-old sister Belle beside her, whose gaze remains shrewdly fixed on her interviewer while her elbow covertly claims more territory from her sister along the theatre’s long bench. He turns to Lily Rose, a quiet and attentive girl with a penchant for writing and illustrating stories (“Obviously!” says her sister). Scrapefoot is ANU Productions’ first ever show for children. “Actually, I don’t know if they know that they made it,” says their father, Owen Boss, ANU’s co-artistic director and designer. Rarest of all, though, is to see them somehow overcome their differences, about a minute or two later, and start helpfully attending each other in the tricky business of tying friendship bracelets around each other’s wrists.īut things tend to move swiftly (and often stealthily) between the father-daughter design team behind Scrapefoot, an immersive visual art installation which has been fastidiously and imaginatively conceived by ANU Productions, and their children, for The Ark. It’s rarer still to see two co-designers discreetly shoving each other with their elbows while a third designer is not looking. It’s rare to see two artistic collaborators, fresh from a finished project, so conspicuously at odds with one another during an interview.
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