CHILD-ish

By Sunny Drake

Adults speak children’s exact words about love, life and the world in this fresh verbatim work. Drawn from interviews with over 40 whip-smart and brutally honest children, a dynamite adult cast allows an adult audience to hear kids’ ideas and experiences anew.

The results are surprising, hilarious and moving.

CHILD-ish is a constellation of creative works: a web series, a live theatre show and an inter-generational process. 

The CHILD-ish creative team is inter-generational aged 6-77.

Sunny speaks about the process of making CHILD-ish:

"The idea for CHILD-ish came about from a time I arrived to look after a 7-year-old, to find her on the couch, head in hands, balling her eyes out. I asked what was wrong and she shared her utter devastation that her classmate didn’t want to marry her. She was really going through it, until right between sobs she started doing acrobatics on the couch and in literally only minutes, she was over it! I’ve wasted years of my life getting over heartbreak! I realized I could do with a crash course from children. And then I started to wonder what else adults could learn from listening to little ones?

I got curious how our listening and learning might shift if we had adult actors speaking children's exact words - not pretending to be kids - but rather trying on children's words, as adults."