Illustration by Jacky Fleming
Presented by tutti frutti productions
Keepy Uppy
by Evan Placey
A play of one half, one hour long to final whistle
For children aged 3+
Available to tour from the 5th of May to the 1st of July 2018
Joey absolutely loves football.
Playing it, watching it, talking about it.
He gets it from his mum – a footy fanatic!
Joey can turn anywhere into a make believe pitch, from scoring goals in his breakfast cereal to imaginary match commentating on his way to school. His enthusiasm is shared equally by his Mum – the best teammate he could ever have. She stands on the sidelines cheering him on, giving him top training tips and teaching him new tricks.
Life is busy for Joey and mum, but today nothing can get in their way as the big day has arrived; the high point of the season, the cup final and a chance for Joey to score a winning goal.
They set off for the game, ready for ANYTHING!
Keepy Uppy is a play for the 2018 World Cup year, for football fans, non-football fans, children and families. Join us and celebrate the joy of the beautiful game with popping rhymes, fab footie moves, flicks and sidesteps underscored by toe tapping live music. This is a visual treat that will ignite children’s imagination from kick-off to the final whistle.
To book
For fees and to discuss availability, please contact tutti frutti on 0113 388 0027 or sophie@tutti-frutti.org.uk.
For more information about working with us please see our venues or schools sections.
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Tour Dates
Date & Time | Venue | Address |
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5th May 2018 11.00; 2.00 |
Howard Assembly Rooms |
Opera North Grand Theatre, 46 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU
To book tickets: 0113 243 9999
https://www.operanorth.co.uk/productions/keepy-uppy |
6th May 2018 1.00; 3.30 |
Lakeside Arts |
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD To book tickets: 0115 846 7777 www.lakesidearts.org.uk Visiting family information is here. |
9th May 2018 |
Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School |
Closed school performance |
10th May 2018 |
Swarcliffe Primary School |
Closed school performance |
12th May 2018 11.00; 3.00 |
The Marlowe Theatre |
The Friars, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2AS To book tickets: 01227 787787 https://marlowetheatre.com/ |
13th May 2018 11.30; 2.30 |
Cornerstone Arts Centre |
25 Station Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 7NE To book tickets: 01235 515144
https://www.cornerstone-arts.org |
16th May 2018 |
Stocksbridge Nursery Infant School |
Closed school performance |
18th May 2018 |
Oakham Primary School, Oldbury |
Closed performance for the school |
22nd May 2018 1.30 |
Square Chapel |
10 Square Road, Halifax, HX1 1QG To book tickets: 01422 349422 www.squarechapel.co.uk Visiting family information is here. |
23rd May 2018 |
Beechwood Primary School |
Closed school performance |
24th May 2018 |
Gledhow Primary School |
Closed school performance |
26th May 2018 11.30; 2.30 |
The Atkinson |
Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1DB To book tickets: 01704 533333 www.theatkinson.co.uk Visiting family information is here. |
27th May 2018 11.30; 2.30 |
The Citadel Arts Centre |
Waterloo Street, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 1PX To book tickets: 01744 735436 https://www.citadel.org.uk |
28th May 2018 11.00; 2.00 |
Stroud Subscription Rooms |
George Street, Stroud, GL5 1AE To book tickets: 01453 760900 http://www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk |
29th May 2018 2.00; 6.30 |
Guildhall Arts Centre |
St Peters Hill, Grantham, Lincs, NG31 6PZ To book tickets: 01476 406158 http://guildhallartscentre.com/ |
31st May 2018 2.00 |
Arts at Stowe |
Stowe School, Stowe, Buckingham MK18 5EH To book tickets: 01280 825710 www.stowe.co.uk |
2nd Jun 2018 2.30 |
Belltable Arts Hub |
69 O'Connell Street, Limerick To book tickets: 061 953 400 https://www.limetreetheatre.ie |
9th Jun 2018 2.00 |
Princess Alexandra Auditorium |
Yarm School, Spitalfields, Stockton-on-Tees TS15 9EJ
To book tickets: 01642 792587 https://www.thepaaonline.org/ |
10th Jun 2018 11.30; 3.30 |
Waterside |
Waterside Plaza, Sale, M33 7ZF
To book tickets: 0161 912 5616
watersidearts.org
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13th Jun 2018 |
Pickering Infant and Nursery School |
Closed school performance |
14th Jun 2018 |
D'Eyncourt Primary School |
Closed school performance |
16th Jun 2018 10.30; 1.30 |
Skipton Town Hall |
High St, Skipton BD23 1AH To book tickets: 01756 706407 |
18th Jun 2018 1.30; 4.30 |
The Forum |
Bullamoor Road, Northallerton, DL6 1LP To book tickets:01609 776230 www.forumnorthallerton.org.uk |
20th Jun 2018 - 23rd Jun 2018 |
York Theatre Royal, Studio Theatre |
St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD To book tickets: 01904 623 568 www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk Visiting family information is here. |
24th Jun 2018 11.00; 2.00 |
artsdepot |
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, London, N12 0GA
To book tickets: 0208 369 5454 www.artsdepot.co.uk Visiting family information is here. |
26th Jun 2018 |
Robert Mellors Primary and Nursery School |
Closed school performance |
27th Jun 2018 10.30; 1.30 |
Stannington Infant School |
Closed school performance |
29th Jun 2018 |
Shine |
Closed schools performance |
30th Jun 2018 2.00 |
The Brewery Arts Centre |
122a Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE To book tickets: 01539 725 133 www.breweryarts.co.uk |
1st Jul 2018 11.30; 2.30 |
mac birmingham |
Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH To book tickets: 0121 446 3232 www.macbirmingham.co.uk |
Schools Activities
Keepy Uppy Story Board Excercise
DownloadCreate your own Footy Kit!
DownloadFootball Colour in Exercise
DownloadCreative Team

Calum Clark
Technical Stage Manager adventuring with tutti frutti for the second time. Other recent escapades include Slung Low's Fairy Portal Camp (RSC), The White Whale (Leeds Dock), 59 Minutes To Save Christmas (Sheffield Theatres) and Emergency Story Penguin (UK Tour).
Calum was the company stage manager for Prime Theatre/Bolton Octagon's 2016 tour of The Macbeth Curse by Terry Deary and has toured extensively with Red Ladder and Phoenix Dance Theatre, Leeds.
He is a graduate in Fine Art from Staffordshire University and co-founder of street theatre troupe Artemis Productions UK, Liverpool.

Dominic Sales
Dom loves writing music, playing music, recording music and listening to music. As a boy he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, singing everyday for five years and sometimes making records and being on the TV. Later he went on to play lots of jazz and was a finalist in The Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Then Dom went to university to learn more about music and since then has been lucky enough to be able to pay the bills just by doing something musical. He has written music for lots of different people -from Atomic Kitten to Opera North and the BBC to a feature film starring John Rhys-Davies. His music has been played on national television and radio and in theatres throughout Europe. Dom is Director/Producer for the record label Jellymould Jazz and also plays the triangle.
www.dominicsales.co.uk
Evan Placey
Evan is a Canadian-British playwright who grew up in Toronto and now lives in London, England. He recently won the Writers’ Guild Award – Best Play for Young Audiences for his play Girls Like That (Synergy Theatre/Unicorn Theatre; first produced Birmingham Rep/Theatre Royal Plymouth/West Yorkshire Playhouse.) A new play for NYT’s West End Season will premiere in October this year, and his play Scarberia will be produced in Toronto in 2016. His other plays include: Pronoun (National Theatre Connections); Mother of Him (Courtyard Theatre, London; winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing (UK), RBC National Playwriting Competition (Canada) and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest (USA).); Banana Boys (Hampstead Theatre); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Scan Artists (BRIT school/ Yard Theatre); Little Criminals (York /Plymouth/Polka) and Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project, schools tour & Unicorn Theatre; winner of the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People.) For radio: Mother of Him (BBC Radio 3 “The Wire”/Little Brother Productions).
Evan has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio, Birmingham Rep, the Unicorn Theatre, and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He was part of the Kudos/Bush Writers’ Initiative, Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting, and was a finalist for the Red Planet Prize. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He also teaches playwriting to young people for various theatres, as well as in prisons.
www.theagency.co.uk/the-clients/evan-placey
Joêl Daniel
At 16 Joêl found breaking enabling him to externalise expression that would otherwise remain internal. After many adventures in the breaking culture he went on to train at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, what started as a means to an end initiated a fierce passion for expression through dance and movement.
After co-founding Champloo Dance Company (2008-2013) and touring its debut show in UK, Europe, Canada and India he works as a freelance Choreographer, Movement Director and Performer. Other work includes Boing! Travelling Light theatre, Cinderella: A fairy tail Tobacco Factory Theatre, Peter Pan Bristol Old Vic and Pulling Out Documental Theatre.

Kate Bunce
Kate designed Michael Morpurgo’s ‘I believe in Unicorns’ for ‘Wizard Presents’. The show premiered at Edinburgh Festival and following a national tour enjoyed great success in the West End 2014/15.
Kate has recently worked with Tutti Frutti designing the ‘SnowChild’ and 'Wild’.
Kate has also worked as a Design lecturer for The Royal College of Art, Central School of Speech and Drama and held prop and assistant design roles for The National theatre, BBC, RSC and Almeida. She trained at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design - MA Scenography and a first class BA Hons in Theatre Design.
Kate lives in St Albans with her partner Jon and two children.

Zanna Woodgate
I have been working in theatre lighting for 10 years now. Most recently designing ‘Exactly Like you’ at the Vaults in London, I enjoy finding small shows with big hearts to be a part of. I am extremely passionate about all corners of the industry having worked in places from the fringe to the Coliseum, but my favourite type of show to work on has always been children’s theatre.
I have had the great fortune to work with Tutti Frutti on several shows, ‘WiLd!’, ‘The Snow Child’ and ‘The Princess and The Pea’. Each one is magical and captivating in its own unique way and I am looking forward to being a part of another one.

Wendy Harris
Artistic Director, Chair of PYA England
I have held the position of Artistic Director at tutti frutti since 2005 and have directed all but one production in partnership with York Theatre Royal, touring nationally and internationally and co-producing the Little Feet Festival of Children’s Theatre and the First Words writers’ development programme
Before working with tutti frutti I was Artistic Director of Red Ladder Theatre Company, and previous to this; Merseyside Young People’s Theatre Company in Liverpool. Over the years as a freelance director work has included; Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Crucible Theatre Sheffield, Hope Street Ltd, Oxford Stage Company, Unity Theatre Liverpool, European Stage Company, Theatre Royal Stratford East, and Contact Theatre Manchester. I currently live in Leeds with my partner Mark and two sons Louie and Eliot.
Touring Team

Danny Childs
Danny graduated from ALRA:North in 2013 where he was nominated to represent the school in a ‘Laurence Olivier Award’ bursary. Starting life as an actor with a rural UK tour of ’12 Miles from Nowhere’ (Karen Simpson/Action Transport Theatre), Danny then moved onto roles as ‘Wishee Washee’ (Buxton Opera House) and ‘Grandson’ in Michael Morpurgo’s ‘FarmBoy’ (Colchester Mercury).
Danny has been a part of the ‘Tutti Frutti’ family before, enjoying a national and international tour of ‘Rapunzel’ back in 2015, 'Ugly Duckling' in 2017 and ‘Keepy Uppy’ in 2018.
Danny and his colleague Matt are establishing their names as filmmakers back in Manchester, specialising in promotional footage, actors portfolio material and short films. They have already enjoyed an official selection award for their short film ‘FEUD’ earlier this year despite only celebrating a 1 year birthday of their company SquadFour Productions recently. Follow their progress online at www.squadfourproductions.co.uk.

Eden Dominique
Eden graduated from Italia Conti Arts Centre in 2015 where she trained in Performing Arts. She has been performing from a young age having sung in the choir of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at The Wimbledon Theatre when she was 5 years old!
Since graduating her credits include, Principle Dancer/Understudy in All or Nothing the Musical (The Vaults Theatre, London) Dance Captain/Understudy in Dick Whittington (The Belgrade Theatre), Ensemble/Featured Dancer in Secret Cinema present’s Dirty Dancing (2016) and Moulin Rouge! (2017). She has also enjoyed performances at The Tate Britain, Frieze Art Fair (Regent’s Park), the celebration of the closing of the BBC Television Centre and the Vault Festival.
Eden is very excited to be on tour for the first time with Keepy Uppy!

Kirsty Smith

Vittorio Angelone
Vittorio Angelone is an Irish musician and actor. He studied at the Guildhall School from 2014-2018 and has involved himself in various projects across both music and drama. He is one of the leading members of the Wind-Up Penguin Theatre Company, taking theatre, music, clowning and workshops to disadvantaged children across the world. He recently performed in Flush at the Winemaker’s Club with Matchstick Theatre and in 300 el x 50 el x 30 el with FC Bergman at the London International Mime Festival.
In the classical music world he has performed across various ensembles both inside and outside Guildhall including Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble. He is regularly heard on BBC Radio 3 including performances of Steve Reich’s Drumming at the Southbank Centre, performances at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall and percussion ensemble performances at LSO St Luke’s. He made his professional orchestral debut with the Ulster Orchestra in 2016. Vittorio also has a keen interest in folk music and can be seen singing and playing with The Mead Men and at various trad sessions across London.
A keen young player bonds with his mum on the way to a big match in Tutti Frutti’s imaginative kids’ show. The Guardian
It’s a big thing asking children between three and seven to sit attentively for an hour. The youngsters in the audience were enchanted by Keepy Uppy, and so was I. Following the success of Under the Magical Moon and Ugly Duckling, I’m pleased to say that Tutti Frutti has scored again. British Theatre Guide
A true 5-star performance leaving you wanting to see more of this fab group. North West End
Keepy Uppy with an excellent cast is no doubt an entertaining and colourful show. Fairy Powered Productions