The Wishing Tree

You have three wishes, one for yourself, one for your community and one for the whole world… What will you wish for?

“The Wishing Tree” is a fun, interactive and playful storytelling show written and performed by award winning author Bernadette Russell.

It is joyful, hopeful and adaptable, can be performed in any space both indoors and outdoors, and is toured on public transport in a suitcase. It contains opportunities to be characters in the stories, and join in with sound effects, dancing and singing.

The show contains three interlocking stories: “The Swaplings”: about a boy who learns some valuable lessons from the wild creatures in his local park, “Hope Bird” about a girl whose best friends are the birds, who eventually learns to fly, and “The Wishing Tree” a story about how precious trees are, and how we can help each other make our dreams come true.

The show ends with the audience invited to choose their own “Wishing Tree” near their home. Every child is given a bark or paper star to remember the stories and encouraged to tell the story to someone else as soon as possible, thereby creating lots of new storytellers.