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Welcome to Bubbly Heaven
The music starts, Holly Pop walks on, and the whole room is off to find the biggest bubbles in the world. Square ones, smoky ones, bubbles inside bubbles inside bubbles, and one with a child stood in the middle of it.
Check a date Technical requirementsProgramming a museum, visitor attraction or science festival? The same hunt runs with the questions turned up — The Bubble Detective.
- 45–60 minNo interval
- Up to 500Seated auditorium
- All agesFamily audience, 3+
- Any stageBuilt to fit your space
What it is
Bubbly Heaven is a place, and the show is a trip there. It opens with its own theme tune, Holly Pop introduces herself, and from that point the audience is looking for the big bubbles with her — counting them, shouting at them, and coming up on stage to get inside one.
The bubbles are the spectacle. The reason it holds a room for the best part of an hour is that Holly Pop is funny. Bubbles refuse to behave, and a great deal of the show is what she does about it. Children laugh at her long before they understand what she’s actually doing, and the adults tend to get caught out enjoying it just as much.
There’s no dialogue to follow and no reading required. Everything works by watching and joining in, which makes it travel easily to relaxed performances, mixed-age audiences and families who don’t share a first language.
What happens on stage
The square bubble
A bubble that has no business being a cube, made between two frames in front of everyone’s eyes.
Bubbles inside bubbles
One inside another inside another, built up live. The routine children lean forward for.
Smoke bubbles
Filled with thick white smoke, so when they burst the shape hangs in the air for a moment afterwards.
A child inside a bubble
A volunteer from the audience lifted inside a bubble taller than they are. The photograph every parent wants.
Giant bubbles under lights
The big ones, run the width of the stage and lit so the colours in the film show. Bubbles are transparent — lighting is what makes them visible.
The finale
The room filled, over the seats and over everybody’s heads, so nobody leaves without having caught one.
The woman doing it
Every bubble act with its own name and its own touring show seems to be a man — the Bubble Men, the Mr Bubbles, the Dr Bubbles. There are women working in bubbles in the UK, but they’re mostly sold through agencies as somebody’s anonymous “female bubbleologist”, with no name of their own attached.
Holly Pop has her own name on her own show, and for a good number of the children watching — particularly the girls — that turns out to be the part they remember.
Behind the stage name is Cheryl Holley, who has spent years running bubble shows at parties, schools, holiday parks and corporate family days across the West of England and South Wales, and who now trains other performers to make bubbles properly. Bubbly Heaven is her own company.
Recent shows
See it moving
Bubbly Heaven on the road, filmed at Greenmeadow Community Farm and Parkdean Resorts — the same show the theatre version is built from.
Three sizes of show
Same world, same hunt, scaled to the room. Tell me where you’re putting it and I’ll tell you honestly which one fits.
Welcome to Bubbly Heaven
45–60 minutesTheatre, arts centre or festival stage, using your staging, sound and lighting. Audiences of 100–500. One performance a day.
The Great Bubble Hunt
45 minutesHalls, marquees and larger parties. Full set-up with banners, microphone and sound system. Audiences of 30–50 and upwards.
The Great Bubble Hunt: Pop-Up
25 minutesLiving rooms, small halls and gardens. Quick, compact set-up without banners or sound system. Best up to around 20 guests.
Technical requirements
- Stage — the show adapts to almost any stage. Around 6m wide by 4m deep gives every routine at full size, and it reworks down to roughly 4m by 3m. Send me your dimensions and I’ll tell you exactly what fits.
- Floor — bubble solution makes any surface slippery. A dance floor or protective covering across the performance area is essential, and I carry my own matting.
- Air — this is the one that catches venues out. Air conditioning, fan heaters and open fire doors destroy bubbles. Ventilation needs to be off or diverted during the performance.
- Power — two 13A sockets on or near the stage.
- Sound — I bring my own radio microphone and can either use it or patch into the house system, whichever your technician prefers. The show has its own music.
- Lighting — bubbles are transparent, so your lighting is what makes them visible. A dark background with side and back light shows them best. A general wash will work, but it’s a noticeably weaker show.
- Water — access to a tap and a sink.
Full public liability insurance (£5m), written risk assessments and a DBS check supplied as standard.
Get-in and out
- 90 minutes before doors
Get-in, floor protection down, large bubble equipment rigged and solution mixed.
- 30 minutes before doors
Sound check and a lighting run with your technician.
- Performance
45–60 minutes straight through, no interval.
- 45 minutes after
Get-out, including drying and clearing the performance area so the floor is safe for the next use.
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Check a date
Tell me your venue, your capacity and the dates you’re looking at, and I’ll come back with availability and a fee. Fees depend on the venue, the date and travel, so everything is quoted individually rather than from a price list.
cheryl@bubblyheaven.co.uk