Welcome to the island of Helium where Betsy lives with her balloon-factory-owning family. They’re cheerful, a bit money-mad and life is on the up.

But when the tide turns against balloons, their world pops. Betsy must start a new life in a faraway city with her eccentric uncle, Hercules Snark, an inventor of mostly half-finished things.

Unfortunately, Snark has problems of his own. In his city, it never stops raining. The streets are flooding. And things, quite literally, are starting to sink.

Betsy Balloon is a rambunctious modern fable with original music and illustration based on a story by Bill Manhire.

CREATIVE TEAM:

Aimée Sullivan: Betsy Balloon

Jackson Burling: Hercules Snark

Nigel Collins: Narrator

Joel Baxendale: Director

Bill Manhire: Original Story and Lyrics

Gavin McGibbon: Stageplay

Moniker: Music

Andrew Laking: Producer

Stephen Templer: Illustrations

Image by Rebecca McMillan Photography