Virginias Diary
Our artistic director & CEO Virginia Radcliffe founded Licketyspit in 2004, following her success as the director of Scotland’s first early years theatre residency, at Wee Stories.
In 2008 she developed her immersive theatre piece LicketyLeap, through play and consultation with early years children. This led to the Storyplay Approach, which is the cornerstone of all of Licketyspit’s work.
Virginia is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of theatre and performance to open up imaginary playworlds for children, families and early years professionals.
In these blogs you can read about some of the work Virginia does with Licketyspit outside of project delivery. This includes advocacy, child consultation, training, digital inclusion and much more. The blogs also include reflections on the journey of Licketyspit and the importance of play and children’s rights.
Learning to communicate with words empowers children!
I spent the early years of Licketyspit writing, directing and producing big, complex shows for children and families (and acting in them too!). Licketyspit is rooted in theatre, and we continue to produce full scale productions, like Molly Whuppie at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016. We want to fire children’s imaginations and we can see that theatre is a fantastic tool to do this. But more than this, an experience of theatre can give an early years child a great store of material, a multi-layered experience they [...]
Conferences in Inverness & Greece!
Licketyspit is committed to joined-up thinking and exploring new ways that the widest possible range of children’s services can collaborate in achieving our shared goals. That’s why we work with Glasgow City Council, Scottish Adoption, The Scottish Refugee Council, and of course, all of our Storyplay Schools. It’s also why we hold regular CPD sessions, to share our learning and practice with children’s professionals working in a range of services and settings. As well as this, we regularly participate in conferences and symposia, where we meet children’s professionals [...]
