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In Giraffens ABC, the youngest audience is welcomed into a fantastical alphabet studio — a living, surreal painting workshop — where two circus artists have been given the daunting task of getting through the 29 letters of the Swedish alphabet in just 35 minutes. Wild capitals tumble upward, princes and swans step out of their frames to help, and the letters finally decide to dance a ballet high up in the clouds.
Kompani Giraff's show sparks curiosity and creative literacy in children at the learning-to-read age — treating its young audience with intelligence and wonder, never talking down, always inviting in.
Noah performs as one of the two painters, in the role created by world-class juggler Petter Wadsten — an honor that came with homework: he learned magic for the show, and took up ring juggling for the first time. Young children, he says, are the most honest audience there is: they either love it, or they look away and start talking — you know within seconds whether what you're doing works.