Half Moon Presents a Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals production
Family theatre and rock star legend Kid Carpet is back with a totally brand new show! A lo-fi, hi-tech, big-beat bonkers panto stuffed with songs, silliness and surprise grannies for ages 3-10 and their families.
Available for booking for performances until 31 May 2027 to venues, libraries, schools and other community spaces.
Jack & the Beanstalk (Sort Of) is also available for Festive period/ Christmas 2026 runs and residencies. Please enquire for further details.
For more information contact Bradley Travis | 020 7709 8902 or bradley@halfmoon.org.uk
Jack & the Beanstalk (Sort Of)
Featuring Bear, Gorilla, Badger and Hedgehog (with possible appearances from Hedgehog’s golden eggs), this is Jack and the Beanstalk like it’s been thrown in a blender with a drum machine and dodgy celebrity lookalikes. Part air guitar workshop, part magical mess, this lo-fi, hi-tech, big-beat bonkers show is stuffed with songs, silliness and surprise grannies.
Bring your kids. Bring yer nan. Bring snacks. It’s theatre, but it’s loud, proud and completely off its bean(stalk).
Perfect for ages 3–10, families, party monsters and fans of noisy nonsense.
From the makers of Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals, Noisy Holiday, Kid Carpet & The Noisy Neighbours, Noisy Nativity, Kid Carpet & The Noisy Garden Centre, Kid Carpet’s Super Mega Rockin’ Rock Show and more!
With help from Chris Collier, Stephanie Kempson and Natalie Otto. Illustration by Hannah Broadway.
Images, trailers and assets
A promotional image, production photos and a trailer are available at the Dropbox link below.
Other promotional assets will be released in due course.
Download images and PR assets
Reviews and audience comments
“The Mighty Boosh for kids”
“Anarchy, irreverence and belly laughs for adults and children alike”
“It’s all gloriously daft, an education in letting yourself go, doing whatever you fancy, being in the moment and flying like a Golden Eagle”
About Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals
Kid Carpet uses small world play, video projection, lo-fi tech wizardry and catchy songs to bring joy, interaction and belly laughs to family audiences through disruptively charming shows and performances.
Kid Carpet has been making theatre for families since 2011 as an antidote to the twee, hyper-sweet and Disneyfied world of work made for children, finding a place for something wilder which embraces the excited chaos of childhood, while simultaneously talking to the adults in the room about the absurd struggles of parenthood and family life.
The Noisy Animals are four small children’s toys; Bear, Gorilla, Hedgehog and Badger who Kid Carpet puppeteers in front of a live onstage camera, projecting them supersize and performing together. Like a lone parenting dad with an unruly mob of children.
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Our productions don’t educate, as such, advocating instead that there are not always correct answers or solutions when talking about or addressing prejudice, social injustices, equality and social inclusion.
Like any good story, Jack & the Beanstalk (Sort Of) allows the audience to join up their own dots, think creatively and ask questions so they can discover their own answers to complex issues, even at a very early age through, experiencing a high-quality theatre adventure.
Show information
Show information
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- One or two shows per day.
- £800 + VAT for one day.
- For weekday gigs or if organising a regional block, reduced rates may apply.
- Please note that these fees are subject to a small additional supplement if your venue makes a compulsory contra to us for your costs at the contracting stage (e.g. credit card/box office; get-in/out; marketing/brochure contributions).
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- Performances last 50-55 minutes (no interval).
- Available for venues, libraries, schools and other community spaces.
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Technical Requirements (venues):
- Get-in: 2 hours minimum before half with pre-rig completed prior to get in.
- Get-out: 1.5 hours
- Venue Configuration: End on. Performing area minimum 5m (wide) by 4m (depth) with 3m (height) .
- Lighting: A full lighting plan will be supplied. We will require the use of the venues lighting desk and ask that venues pre-rig where possible.
- Sound: We tour a Mac with QLAB but will need to plug this into the venues P.A. system. Vocal mic and stand also required.
- Projection: We tour a projector and screen.
- Staffing: On tour, there is 1 performer who will operate sound and projections, but we do require 1 in-house technician to assist with get-in, focus, plot, operating simple lighting and assisting with the get-out.
- Parking: For an estate car.
- Facilities: Dressing rooms for one performer.
Technical Requirements (non-traditional spaces inc. rural touring spaces/libraries/schools):
- Note: the piece can perform self-sufficiently without complete blackout and we can tour our own sound.
- All we need is one contact to help with get-ins.
- Set-up times are 90 mins, exit within 90 mins.
- This flexibility allows families/children to access the work where they live, go to school or spend their free time.
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- Dedicated support from the marketing/PR and technical team at Half Moon.
- Up to 500 A5 colour flyers and 15 A3 colour posters. (NB: overprinting will be at an additional cost, please enquire).
- Images, production photos and other digital assets for venue or broader publicity usage.
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We are able to offer a range of bespoke creative learning activities for schools and family groups. Kid Carpet offers a songwriting workshop and an introduction to his performance techniques including movement, puppeteering and clowning. These is available at additional costs. Please enquire for prices.
Bradley Travis | 020 7709 8902 or bradley@halfmoon.org.uk
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