Stephen Noonan
Stephen is a performance maker with a diverse practice working in the Theatre for Early Years field. He makes high quality and meticulously crafted original work.
Project: Risky
Session: 15
Delivery date: 10 September 2025
Present: Stephen Noonan & Dave Brown
Location: Upstairs Cirkidz, 27 Fifth St, Bowden SA 5007
Time: 9:30 am -5 pm
Videos:
Opening sequence
Flight – laying four corners
Weight lifter – laying four corners
Tick – Tock – laying four corners
Circus – laying four corners
Prelude to four corner track beats
The Little Red Button – story by Dave and Claude
(A form of parable possibly telling the story of the red corflute)
In a quiet world made entirely of white, lived a girl named Luna. Her white house sat on white grass under white clouds. Her white cat purred on white pillows, and white flowers bloomed in her white garden. Everything was peaceful and perfectly, purely white.
One morning, a tiny red button rolled through Luna's front gate. It was no bigger than a marble, bright as a strawberry, and completely out of place.
"Oh my!" said Luna, bending down to look at the little button. "You don't belong here at all."
The red button trembled. It had travelled so far to find this beautiful white world, hoping to make some friends. But now it felt scared and different.
"Please," whispered the button in its tiny voice, "I want to stay and be part of your world. But I don't want to turn white. Red is who I am."
Luna picked up the button gently. She had never seen anything like it before. As she held it, something wonderful happened—the button's red glow made the white flowers around them look pink in its light. The white clouds above seemed to shimmer with the faintest blush.
"You know what?" Luna smiled. "I think our white world has been waiting for you. Not to become white, but to help us see how beautiful we can be together."
She placed the red button in the centre of her white garden. Now, instead of endless white, there was a warm, glowing heart that made everything around it seem more alive and special.
And from that day on, Luna learned that sometimes the most wonderful thing about a world isn't how everything matches, but how beautiful it becomes when something different decides to stay just as it is.
The End