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Party

for ages 3-7 / family

A Half Moon production

DIGITAL ON DEMAND TOUR – A quirky birthday party to remember exploring diversity for the very young. Available throughout 2025/26. Please enquire.
Afonso wants to go to his best friend’s birthday party, but where is his invitation – has it been lost in the post, or maybe he wasn’t even invited? When it finally arrives the excitement and nerves become too much to handle. What should he wear? Will they have balloons? Will anyone play with him? And what about the cake?

Heartfelt, provocative and full of quirky humour, Party features striking, colourful designs and a glorious contemporary soundtrack. Let the warmth of a Portuguese summer take you to a place where difference is something to celebrate.

The show offers a poignant and high energy music driven theatrical experience exploring diversity for the very young.

This show has very few words. This makes it accessible to a range of people, including d/Deaf, hard of hearing and non-English speakers.

Party, like all Half Moon 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, the aim of Party is to allow 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 adventu

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Show information

  • Online performance lasts 30 mins

  • Party is available in the following formats:

    • Film with closed captions
    • BSL interpreted film (with captions)
    • Audio Described film
  • For audiences to view at home via an online streaming platform, at a time that suits them:

    Party will be made available on a password protected Vimeo link, which will need to be passed onto bookers (link and password). The play has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences.

    Alternatively, the shows can be embedded onto the venue’s website and the page link sent to bookers. Audiences will still need to enter the password to access the video.  This will be available for your audiences to view for 14 days following the date of the last programmed online show. After this time the video will no longer be available to watch as the password will expire. Venues will not be sent a digital file of the booked show to download.

    For a live screening or at a specific date and time online experience:

    Venues will be released the full MP4 file so that a venue can play it through their own playback or cinema system. Captions will be sent as a separate SRT file for you to upload to your platform. This is for 1 day (2 showings are permitted per day). Venues are required to delete the MP4 file after use and not distribute to anyone else.

  • Please enquire.

    • We also have three online workshops that audiences can take part in at home, after they have watched the performance. The three video workshops explore different themes of Party, including movement and dance.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A funny, anarchic play that will capture the interest and imagination of children…. [Party] wowed the kids and kept them all gripped…the magical grand finale had every child in the room screaming with joy.”

Everything Theatre

“I saw Party at the MAC’s Outsiders Festival. My eight-year-old proper cried during the show, and this continued after the show had finished. He was touched by the feelings Afonso had and their reactions as he ‘knows those feelings’. Thank you for representing. 😍”

Audience member
For more details on Party, or if you would like to see the piece on tour, please contact:

Bradley Travis | 020 7709 8902 or bradley@halfmoon.org.uk

The filming of Party was made possible by funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, distributed by City Bridge Trust through the London Community Response Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players for making this possible.