First Light

Ther Barbican always does a good seasonal line in sensory shows for the very young. ‘First Light’ arguably isn’t theatre per se – it’s billed as a ‘sensory sculpture’ – but you try telling its zero-to-18-months target audience that. In essence, it’s a 15-minute experience in a pod, for one family at a time, in which you bathe in sound and light designed to simulate the gradually awakening senses of a baby. It’s co-created by theatre-maker Daniel Naddafy and artist and lighting designer Marty Langthorne.