Playgrounds on Fire!

Playgrounds on Fire! is a participatory experience in which a mixed hearing-and-deaf* audience is confronted by a playground that just won’t stop burning. In order to douse the fires, the audience has to come together to solve a series of puzzles, the clues for which are shared by our young team. There’s just one rule:

No spoken language!

The team can point, use sign language, red lights, green lights, massive emojis; anything in the world except spoken language!

Playgrounds on Fire! is being developed by an intergenerational deaf/hearing inclusive team in partnership with FELD Theater für junges Publikum in Berlin, Germany.

Collaborators include: Elli Kühne, Mia Wiethoff, Anna Deul, Darren O’Donnell, Jan Kress, Manuel Ahnemüller, and Steve Heather, who makes music you can feel in your bones.

*Deaf is a positive self-designation of non-hearing people, regardless of whether they are deaf, profoundly deaf or hard of hearing.