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BOOK HERE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
TO TAKE PART IN 'TELFORD TALL TALES 2025'!
Click on the links below to be taken to our Eventbrite pages...
Summer Storytelling Week
Storytelling Saturday
Autumn Storytelling Workshops
We have been awarded an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant to run ‘Telford Tall Tales’ this summer/autumn in Telford Town Centre!!
We are so delighted that all the hard work, development, planning and grant applications which took place in the winter months have paid off, and this exciting pilot project for bringing MA’s work into Central Telford is going ahead.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support – please give yourselves a hug to remind yourselves how fantastic you are.
No matter what shape your kindness has taken, know you are helping us bring the arts to more children and communities in Telford and Wrekin.
Opportunities to join us...
Could you make an impact just by being you?
VOLUNTEER with us on our Telford Tall Tales project to extend your skillset and CV and spend deeply enriching time with the young people and creatives of Telford!
Apply by 7TH JULY for our Summer Storytelling Week!
Apply by 8TH SEPTEMBER for our Autumn Storytelling Workshops!
A brilliant opportunity for your CV, personal growth and people skills, having fun with Telford’s youth and performance artists.
Moonstruck Astronaut Guiding Principles:
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We are serious about play.
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We seek to be a channel for creativity.
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We are a space for finding peace and joy within and with each other.
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We find freedom in time spent co-creating with our community.
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Witnessing and celebrating each other’s creativity makes us feel alive.
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We seek to give people moments and memories that will endure and give them strength for their whole lives.
Who are we?
Moonstruck Astronaut is a not-for-profit community theatre company based in Telford, Shropshire that is in orbit around children co-creating arts projects that uplift and unite!
Our vision is to help foster a joyful, loving world in which everyone's creativity is valued and celebrated. We seek to strengthen our local community's wellbeing by enabling more people to take part in communal creativity in order to increase the bonds of friendship and fun between us all and serve world peace.
Our mission is to bring the local communities surrounding Telford together through theatre projects, first with our children and then extending to all ages. In order to achieve this, we co-create drama projects and performances that encounter life from a child’s open-minded perspective of wonder and delight.
Based on years of experience teaching drama and directing theatre, we are passionate about the extensive benefits to a community’s wellbeing of taking part in communal creativity.
Hannah de Quincey
Artistic Director
What do we do?
We are moving to Telford Town Centre to run 'Telford Tall Tales' this summer and autumn. We believe drama and theatre are powerful, delightful tools for enabling everyone’s confidence, self-expression and holistic wellbeing through the communication, creativity and community they foster. We want to help make these ‘tools’ for developing a well-rounded, contented individual accessible to more people in our local community.
About Us
Moonstruck Astronaut community theatre company is a lifelong dream of Hannah de Quincey’s. Inspired by her training with London Bubble community theatre company and the Unicorn Theatre for Children in London, she emerged from completing her Masters in Theatre Directing in 2008 with the ambition to co-create a theatre company that specialises in both children’s theatre in conjunction with community theatre. Fast forward over a decade later and the community theatre company that uplifts and unites all she had envisaged is now growing in Shropshire.
The name for the theatre company landed in her mind when she was mesmerised by the moon while walking home when living in London. She still can be found staring up at the moon in the night sky and hopes you remember to look up too!
Participant Feedback
- Best holiday club we've had.
- He’s been up on the ceiling all week he’s been that excited about coming!
- My son absolutely loved the experience from beginning to end.
- Perfect time, excellent food!
- Fun and well performed. Children performed so well as a team.
- Absolutely fantastic! Performance so unique and well thought ideas.
- They all performed with confidence which can only grow.
- Amazing that everyone had chance to shine – everyone’s confidence has sky rocketed.
