An outdoor bicycle-powered eco-musical for KS1 & KS2
Bicycle Boy toured to schools throughout the 2021 summer term. Get in touch if you’d be interested in arranging a performance of one of our other shows in future.
Explore sustainability, power and energy, cycle safety, and music in this cross-curricular musical for KS1 and KS2.
Packed with songs and humour and performed outdoors in your school playground, Bicycle Boy is an inspiring new eco-musical. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year while delving into topics such as science and the environment.
To make the show even more special, all the electricity for the show is generated by children on bicycles (and maybe the occasional willing teacher)!
Join us for a musical, pedal-powered performance
Our hero, Sam has 24 hours to clear out his grandad’s old bike workshop; it has been a difficult time and the business has to close. He remembers granddad teaching him to ride – and playing with him, pretending to be superhero Bicycle Boy.
It seems grandad may have left Sam a present somewhere in the workshop, and some clues to find it. But there’s no power and Sam needs electricity to unlock the messages. He needs our help! If we can connect up enough bikes and pedal like mad, maybe we can generate enough power for Sam’s journey (and the show).
- We perform outdoors on your school field or playground to audiences of up to 120 children per performance.
- For more children we can do more performances! This ensures everyone can see and hear clearly.
- We can do up to two performances in a morning and one in the afternoon.
- For large schools we can visit across multiple days.
Helen Eastman makes work for children and families that is interactive, creative, sometimes a little riotous and explores the complex world we live in. Here she works with long-term collaborator, composer Alex Silverman whose work will be familiar to many schools through West End in Schools' pantomimes. Alex's playful music is woven through the piece (and played on a lot of bike parts as well as instruments). This is about creating experiences for children of the highest quality, with loads of fun.
Read more about the creative team for Bicycle Boy.
Bicycle Boy has been adapted with help from health and safety consultants, and two different councils, to make the show as COVID-secure as possible. This includes:
- Seating the audience in class bubbles, with aisles between classes.
- Seating the audience 3 metres from the performers.
- Adding a hand-washing song - a fun way for us to pause the show for everyone to sanitise regularly.
- Disinfecting the bicycles between every user.
- Re-working moments of audience participation in the show to remove any contact between performers and audience.
- Testing all company members (lateral flow testing) twice a week.
- Having a COVID officer on tour, who will monitor any changes to guidelines and the health and well-being of our company.
Head to our FAQs Page for more information. If you can't find the answer you are looking for please do give us a call on 020 7395 7520 and one of our friendly office team will be happy to help.
“There are some messages here about energy consumption, bicycle safety and the decline of old family businesses, but there is also a central human story that hits with a surprising power.
This is not to be missed. The joy in your young companion’s face as she holds up her prop for the bicycle boy song, or the tear in her eye at the suggestion of throwing away an old and cherished teddy bear, will affirm the power of a simple story, earnestly performed, to sneak up on you somewhere during an hour on a warm spring evening and break your heart and affirm your life, at least just a little bit.”
-Five Stars, Reviews Hub
