Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Mon 10th – Tues 11th Oct
An award winning television series running on BBC TV’s CBeebies since 2006, the animated Numberjacks help young children learn about numbers, shapes and sizes in a fun and imaginative way. The Numberjacks are ten superheroes who live inside a sofa, but now they are emerging from their home and TV screen for their first live show!
Touring across the UK, the Numberjacks need the children’s help to solve tricky problems and beat the dastardly Meanies, like the Numbertaker and Spooky Spoon, who do all they can to disrupt proceedings, but with help from viewers, the heroic Numberjacks will win the day.
The series won the Royal Television Society Award for the best pre-school educational programme two years running, and adheres to the Early Years Foundation Stage syllabus and the Primary National Strategy Framework for Teaching Mathematics. The show introduces children as young as two to the world of maths in a fun and lively way.
Since its founding in 1989, Open Mind Productions have produced hundreds of children’s shows for BBC, Channel 4, SEAC and CBeebies including Numberjacks, BAFTA Award-winning Ratatatat (1999), RTS Primary Literacy and Numeracy Award-winning The Number Crew (2000), and Living Proof, which received the Royal Television Society Best Junior Programme Award for 1996 and was nominated for the Japan Prize. The company was founded by former BBC film editor Roland Tongue, and Chris Ellis, former teacher, TV scriptwriter and producer.
Monday 10th – Tuesday 11th October 2011Edinburgh, Festival TheatreShow Times: 10.30am & 1.00pm
Tickets: £12.00 Baby Tickets: £2.00 (24 months and under) Family Ticket: £42.00 (4 tickets, max 2 adults)
Box Office: 0131 529 6000
Website: www.fctt.org.uk
