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Telford Tall Tales 2025 - Project Film:
We’re delighted to share this short film capturing voices and reflections from children, young people, artists and volunteers involved in Telford Tall Tales 2025, a co-created community theatre project delivered by Moonstruck Astronaut.
The film was created by Nellia Lunteka, a final-year Business & Marketing Management student at the University of Wolverhampton, as part of her superb volunteer contribution to the project.
Project Highlights
Photos from the Telford Tall Tales 2025 project, including our summer immersive week-long storytelling workshop and the autumn sharing of work created by children and young people with Moonstruck Astronaut artists. Photos by Beth Stanley and Lizzie Bennett. The project was supported by Arts Council England (awarding funds from the National Lottery), Telford & Wrekin Council through the Department for Education’s Holiday Activities and Food programme, and Postcode Local Trust, funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Opportunities to join us...
Could you make an impact just by being you?
VOLUNTEER with us to extend your skillset and CV and spend deeply enriching time with the young people and creatives of Telford!
A brilliant opportunity for your personal growth, people skills and your CV, whilst having fun with Telford’s youth and performance artists.
Moonstruck Astronaut Guiding Principles:
We are serious about play.
We seek to be a channel for creativity.
We are a space for finding peace and joy within and with each other.
We find freedom in time spent co-creating with our community.
Witnessing and celebrating each other’s creativity makes us feel alive.
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.
We are in orbit around children co-creating arts projects that uplift and unite!
We bring together neurodivergent and neurotypical children and adults to co-create theatre, because creativity thrives when different kinds of minds imagine and make things together.
Our vision is to help foster a joyful, loving world in which everyone’s creativity is valued and celebrated. Through communal creativity we build confidence, friendship and connection in our local community.
Alongside our children and young people, a dedicated group of volunteers help create the warm, supportive environment in which our projects flourish.
Drawing on many years of experience teaching drama and directing theatre, we believe the creative arts are powerful tools for supporting confidence, communication, self-expression and community belonging.
Moonstruck Astronaut is evolving into a neurodivergent-affirming arts organisation, recognising and supporting many different ways of thinking and experiencing the world. Our aim is not to separate people, but to create shared creative spaces where all brain types can collaborate, learn from one another and flourish.
Our workshops are designed with care so that children with all kinds of minds can take part fully — using sensory-aware practice, strong adult support and strength-based facilitation.
Through our projects we aim to nurture a vibrant local creative ecosystem where children, families, volunteers and artists grow together through imagination and collaboration.
Hannah de Quincey
Artistic Director
What do we do?
We run weekly drama workshops during term time and an immersive arts week every August. We believe drama and other creative arts are powerful, delightful tools for building confidence, self-expression and holistic wellbeing through the communication, creativity and community they foster. We want to help make these opportunities for developing well-rounded, contented individuals 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.
