Performance: Gozert (ages 8+) – Children's Book Week
Sunday 4 October
What if your very best friend was invisible? Gozert, based on the award-winning children's book by Pieter Koolwijk, is an imaginative and musical theatre performance full of humour. This heartwarming adventure celebrates friendship, imagination and the courage to dare to be different.
What if your very best friend was invisible? Gozert, based on Pieter Koolwijk’s award-winning children's book, is an imaginative and musical theatre performance full of humour. A heartwarming adventure about friendship, imagination and the courage to dare to be different.
Ties has a very best friend – but no one else can see him. His name is Gozert! Together they embark on fantastic adventures: hunting trolls, protecting children from boredom by stealing a Roman pot from a museum, and rescuing children from monsters at the day-care centre.
Of course, these adventures often get Ties into trouble. His parents believe it would be better if Gozert disappeared, so they send Ties to Huize Hoopvol. There, doctors try to separate Ties and Gozert through medication and therapy. But Ties doesn’t want to lose his best friend.
Will Ti…
What if your very best friend was invisible? Gozert, based on Pieter Koolwijk’s award-winning children's book, is an imaginative and musical theatre performance full of humour. A heartwarming adventure about friendship, imagination and the courage to dare to be different.
Ties has a very best friend – but no one else can see him. His name is Gozert! Together they embark on fantastic adventures: hunting trolls, protecting children from boredom by stealing a Roman pot from a museum, and rescuing children from monsters at the day-care centre.
Of course, these adventures often get Ties into trouble. His parents believe it would be better if Gozert disappeared, so they send Ties to Huize Hoopvol. There, doctors try to separate Ties and Gozert through medication and therapy. But Ties doesn’t want to lose his best friend.
Will Ties choose Gozert, or will he do what everyone else expects of him? Will he say goodbye to Gozert in order to fit in, or will he choose his friend, whatever the consequences?
Gozert is a musical, imaginative and humorous theatre performance that explores an important social issue. It’s time to be different. It’s time for Gozert!