Showing @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 14 – Fri 23 Dec (not Sunday or Monday)

In times of prosperity odd socks were a fashion faux pas, but as wallets and the weather prepare for a busy winter their value increases in the bitter months ahead. Puppet Lab’s new production invites your infants to investigate the Lost Sock Universe, to find Rachael Sock’s missing pair.

Gone are the lewd and bawdy references in this imagination-inducing children’s show. Using sock puppets Kim Bergsagel and Rachael Macintyre locate and cast their semi-improvised story using input from toddlers in the audience. The simple and creative way of building each world of this mufti multi-verse with various sizes of cardboard polygons, places this production between educational video and fantasy. A strong moral theme along with the bright colours and CBeebies style repetition ensure each unique performance will entertain, engage and teach children about the responsibility of ownership and the longevity of commercial produce after losing its primary function.