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Niki McCretton is an award-winning performer who creates theatre productions utilising a number of art forms. Her works are quirky and inventive with a charm that enables them to be enjoyed by all. Niki is also currently co-Artistic Director and Producer for Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company.
Her original, devised works have specially commissioned music, strong physicality and are highly visual. Often utilising film, animation, dance, text and humour, Niki has gained a strong reputation across the globe and has created productions for all ages.
Having zoomed through 5 years of sell out UK tours from 2004-2008 and ‘5 star’ performances at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Niki McCretton’s hit show Muttnik – The First Dog in Space is blasting off again, to show audiences that you can teach an old dog new tricks with this refreshing slant on what happened to Laika, the dog sent into space aboard the Russian Sputnik 2 rocket in 1957.
Told with dance, music and puppetry, this enchanting tale feeds the imagination and is suitable for children over three: Muttnik is a stray. She lives on the streets of Moscow, cold and hungry until one day she is captured. To her surprise she finds herself in a new home with food, water and adventures better than dreams; she is living at the Russian Space centre and is to become the first dog in space! She learns to fly a rocket, to dance in zero gravity and to go ‘where no dog has gone before’. Will she skate on the rings of Saturn, what will be her first message home and what will it be like to dig holes on the moon?
For more information have a look at what we have currently touring or visit www.nikimccretton.com