Creative Team and Cast
2025 Creative Team
Fiona Ferrier, Rachel Colles, Irina Vartopeanu
Performers
Ciaran Stewart
BSL Consultant
Katie Innes
Designer
Su Appelbe
Musician
Tim Licata
Directorial Support
Original Creative Team
Fiona Ferrier and Rachel Colles
Performers
Katie Innes
Designer
Su Appelbe
Musician
Maria Oller/Suzie Ferguson/Tim Licata
Directorial Support
Kelman Greig-Kicks
Photos
Rhian Wright
Illustration
About
The incredible ‘Challenge Enthusiasts’, Destiny, Sally and Pam, are embarking on their biggest challenge yet – The Marshmallow Challenge! Can they resist eating one marshmallow to then be rewarded with two marshmallows? The Enthusiasts can resist nearly everything except temptation, which takes them on an emotional, and hilarious, rollercoaster ride!
BOUNCE is for 5-10 year olds, and is a comedy theatre show that explores emotions and resilience. It was developed with four Primary Schools in 2019, where the children and artists explored emotions, what they look and sound like, and what to do when feelings feel too big.
BOUNCE toured schools and venues in 2021, 2022, 2023 and was then redeveloped in 2025 to be bilingual – BSL and English.
Over 3500 children have experienced Bounce so far!
We plan to tour BOUNCE again in the future.
Any schools interested should contact us at info@dirliebane.org.uk
BOUNCE 2025 has been funded by: Creative Scotland, The Conundrum Charitable Trust, The Trefoil Trust, and the Ponton House Trust. It will be created with the support of Perth Theatre.
“The skilled comedic performances were perfectly in sync, using their tools of storytelling, movement and musicality to build an excellent rapport with their audience.”
Ruth Rankin, Perthshire Advertiser.
“It made me feel happy, my jaw hurt from laughing so much”
P4 Pupil, Pitcairn Primary School
“Fantastic! My child is deaf and uses a mix of BSL and English, so it was great to see that represented.”
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