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Imagine Live by Jolyon James based on the book by Alison Lester in association with Her Majesty's Theatre Presents
Imagine Live
by Jolyon James based on the book by Alison Lester
08 Jul 2025
Sessions
Tuesday
July 08, 2025
10:30 – 11:25
Tickets
July 08, 2025
10:30 – 11:25
Information
Show type
Family
duration
55 Minutes (no interval)
Location
Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat
Time
10:30 AM
Prices
Full: $27
Student/Concession: $22
Family (2 adults and 2 children) $80
Cheap Seats: $20
Mob Tix: $20
We are proud to offer Mob Tix. These are discounted tickets for self-identified First Nations People to selected shows at Ballarat’s Cultural Venues.
School Bookings: For All Schools booking please contact the box office via hermaj@hermaj.com or 03 5333 5888
Student/Concession: $22
Family (2 adults and 2 children) $80
Cheap Seats: $20
Mob Tix: $20
We are proud to offer Mob Tix. These are discounted tickets for self-identified First Nations People to selected shows at Ballarat’s Cultural Venues.
School Bookings: For All Schools booking please contact the box office via hermaj@hermaj.com or 03 5333 5888
Suitable for
Family, Kids
Additional information
Magical and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world.
With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the iconic pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought. Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as the pages of the book spring to life before your eyes.
IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.
Created by the multi award winning team from ROBOT SONG, IMAGINE LIVE is an interactive musical performance for families . . . Nana’s are especially welcome.
“It’s EXQUISITE! So rich, real, layered and perfect for kids. I kept having to pinch myself that Imagine was my book, I feel so honoured.” - Alison Lester, Author of ‘Imagine’
With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the iconic pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought. Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as the pages of the book spring to life before your eyes.
IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity.
Created by the multi award winning team from ROBOT SONG, IMAGINE LIVE is an interactive musical performance for families . . . Nana’s are especially welcome.
“It’s EXQUISITE! So rich, real, layered and perfect for kids. I kept having to pinch myself that Imagine was my book, I feel so honoured.” - Alison Lester, Author of ‘Imagine’
Cast & Creatives
Jolyon James
Nate Gilkes
Adeline Hunter
Aubrey Flood
Abe Geyer
Susie Armstrong
Goldie Wood
Writer / Director / Designer
Jolyon James
Production Manager / Lighting Design
Benjamin Van Dillen
Composer
Nate Gilkes
Sound Design
Justin Gardam
Assistant Director
Ashlea Pyke
Visual Supervisor
Amy Marks
Access Consultant
Eliza Hull
Producer / Agent
NIcolas Clark Management (NCM)
Based on the best-selling book by
Alison Lester
Publisher of 'Imagine'
Allen & Unwin
Musician
Nate Gilkes
Partners
Jolyon James
Writer / Director / Designer
Jolyon James is a multidisciplinary artist with over 30 years professional experience in performance, writing, visual arts, photography and directing. From 2024 - 2021 he was the Artistic Associate at Arena Theatre Company, one of Australia’s oldest and most celebrated theatre companies for young people.
Jolyon is equally comfortable in both traditional and non-traditional theatrical forms, often combining writing, directing, designing and new technologies. His works such as Robot Song, Cautionary Tales for Children and Trapper have toured Art Centres and theatres nationally and internationally. Other recent works, such as the Rainbow Tree, The Fight of Flight, Figment and The Gift of the BowerBird form a series of large scale, site specific community works that dedicate space to the profound perspective of those living with a disability, the elderly and the very young.
Jolyon is equally comfortable in both traditional and non-traditional theatrical forms, often combining writing, directing, designing and new technologies. His works such as Robot Song, Cautionary Tales for Children and Trapper have toured Art Centres and theatres nationally and internationally. Other recent works, such as the Rainbow Tree, The Fight of Flight, Figment and The Gift of the BowerBird form a series of large scale, site specific community works that dedicate space to the profound perspective of those living with a disability, the elderly and the very young.
In 2019, Robot Song received the Helpmann Award for Best Children’s Presentation and two Drama Victoria Awards, for Best Presentation for Primary Aged Students and Best Presentation for VCO Drama Students.
Jolyon is also a professional animator and photographer and was a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2012.
Jolyon is also a professional animator and photographer and was a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2012.
Nate Gilkes
Composer / Musician
NATE GILKES is a Helpmann award winning musician, arts educator and artistic director working across disciplines of New Music Theatre, Arts Education and Training and Community Works. His practice sits at the collision points of music, theatre and opera, often using multi modes and artforms to convey story.
Nate composed the score for the Helpmann Award winning production, Robot Song with Arena Theatre Company (Best Production for Children and Young People), as well as scores for POWER (Force Majeure and Sydney Biennale), Hipbone Sticking Out (Big hART and Melbourne Festival), and Acoustic Life of Sheds (Ten Days on the Island).
Nate composed the score for the Helpmann Award winning production, Robot Song with Arena Theatre Company (Best Production for Children and Young People), as well as scores for POWER (Force Majeure and Sydney Biennale), Hipbone Sticking Out (Big hART and Melbourne Festival), and Acoustic Life of Sheds (Ten Days on the Island).
He is a former Artistic Director at Marian St Theatre for Young People in Sydney.
Nates holds degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts in Directing, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Education and is currently completing an MFA in Cultural Leadership at NIDA.
Nates holds degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts in Directing, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Education and is currently completing an MFA in Cultural Leadership at NIDA.
Adeline Hunter
Actor
Adeline is a Melbourne-based actor, singer, dancer and voice over artist. She is a 2023 Showfit Musical Theatre graduate where she trained under the mentorship of Mathew Frank, Katherine Tonkin, and Freya List. Adeline’s stage credits include Bearded - Ensemble/Hailey Cover (Theatre Works), Parade - Mary Phagan/Dance Captain (Sydney – Seymour Centre & Melbourne – Chapel Off Chapel), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre (Hayes Theatre), and Urinetown - Little Becky Two-Shoes/Dance Captain (Soundworks Productions).
She has performed in educational theatre programs with Perform! Education and The National Theatre for Children and toured extensively around Victoria and NSW. She is thrilled to be bringing the magic of ‘Imagine’ across Australia.
She has performed in educational theatre programs with Perform! Education and The National Theatre for Children and toured extensively around Victoria and NSW. She is thrilled to be bringing the magic of ‘Imagine’ across Australia.
Aubrey Flood
Actor
Aubrey is a Naarm-based actor, singer and director. Aubrey graduated from the Ballarat Arts Academy and has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York. As a performer, Aubrey’s credits range from children’s theatre to solo cabarets, concerts and a cappella groups, fringe festivals all over Australia to major works in theatres, and performances in NYC. Aubrey most recently appeared in What If/If Only for the Melbourne Theatre Company. Aubrey is an emerging director with assistant credits including working with Kenneth Moraleda on new Filipino-Australian musical, LOLA! by Jordan Shea & Victoria Falconer, and as a directing intern on Cybec Electric: Malacanang/Montgomery with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
She recently made her directing debut with HOT.FAT.CRAZY. which had a sell-out season as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, a successful return season for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, which saw it nominated for Best Cabaret and win the South Australia Touring Award, and a Green Room nomination for Outstanding Direction of a Cabaret.
Abe Geyer
Actor / Digital Pupeteer
Susie Armstrong
Nana
Goldie Wood
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