Special Delivery is an urban fairytale about a deliveryman, who is lured out of the busy-ness of his daytime world back into the mysteries and possibilities of childhood play and imagination.

This wordless visual comedy features a foley artist who provides the music and sounds that orchestrate the story of a deliveryman who, in attempting to make a delivery, finds himself lured into a quirky, Tati-esque world where ordinary objects are imbued with mystery and magic. The journey beguilingly unfolds as the boxes and their contents make connections that draw him, clue by clue, back to the wonders of his childhood, beckoning him to reconstruct the lost joys of his own parenting.

In an enchanting finale, the Delivery Man is packed into a small box and delivered through the previously impenetrable warehouse door, back into a life of new possibilities and priorities. And so a Special Delivery is made.

Special Delivery is a comic fable about a busy deliveryman, a trolley load of boxes and the world that opens up when a door stays shut: a world of sound where nothing is said, where work becomes child's play and everyday objects are magically transformed. Full of wonder, surprise and gentle humour Special Delivery is enchanting visual theatre.

Patch Theatre Company
In its 35 year history, Patch Theatre Company has produced 99 new works and performed to 1.4 million children and their families nationally and internationally. In recent years, Patch has developed and refined a repertoire of seven acclaimed productions, each featuring the company's trademark elegance, simplicity and theatrical invention. This stylish collection of engaging theatre for 4 to 8 year olds, and their families, has earned national and international acclaim.

Over the last five years, Patch has performed at fourteen international children's festivals in Korea, Japan, Singapore, USA, New Zealand and Canada and been featured regularly at the Sydney Opera House and Victorian Arts Centre. The company has presented four consecutive national Playing Australia tours in four years, with recent tours being five months in duration to 30+ venues in all states and territories. In 2006, Patch Theatre performed to record audiences of over 80,000 in total, including 10,000 attendances overseas.

In 2008, the company's work will be presented in New York at the prestigious New Victory Theatre on 42nd Street.

Contact:
Amanda Jones
General Manager
Patch Theatre Company
c/- Lion Arts Centre, cnr Morphett Street and North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel +61 8 8218 8407
Fax +61 8 8410 6798
Mob 0412 648 358
amanda@patchtheatre.org.au
www.patchtheatre.org.au