
Check Out! is a wickedly funny work of theatre about the consumer culture bonanza. Set in a supermarket, Check Out! follows the remarkable adventures of tantrum-throwing Baby who is determined to get what she wants. Filled with puppetry at its most inventive and cheeky, Baby soon meets shelf products which come to life, and Speedy who helps her discover that you need more than just stuff to see you through.
Fast paced and physical, Check Out! is a very funny and ever-so-scathing take on parent/child relationships and the market power invested in children. Designed as a cure for affluenza, Check Out! is a muzak-filled slapstick puppet tale which will make sure that a trip to the supermarket will never be the same again.
Entranced by the lure of a chocolate bunny, Baby runs away from her Dad, gets lost in the Supermarket and meets Speedy, who lives in the supermarket. Baby swaps her beloved toy Ivan with Speedy and, in return, can have all the products she wants. As life at the top becomes sugar fuelled and dangerous, she realises that having everything is not all it's cracked up to be. On the run from shelf stackers, the Manager and the products themselves, Baby battles for survival in the supermarket and realises that life is not just about ‘I want, I want'..





Checkout! can be performed as a theatre production or a school hall production.
The theatre production works on a larger scale. It has a larger set, lighting and an extra performer.
Audience - Children 5 - 12 and families
Length of show - 45 mins (plus optional 15 mins for Q&A) - No interval
Lighting - Plan provided, will fit on most standard rigs.
Sound - In house system (USB, mini disc or CD capabilities)
Stage Requirements - 8m x 8m stage needed, minimum 3m height.
Time - 6 hour bump in including tech run. 1 hour bump out.
Audience - Children 5 - 12 and families
Length of show - 45 mins (plus optional 15 mins for Q&A)
Lighting - General in house lighting
Sound - Polyglot to bring audio player
Stage Requirements - 8m x 8m stage needed, minimum 3m height.
Time - 1 hour bump in, 1 hour bump out.