Kiti and the Night (Part 1)

Kiti discovers the night is not what it seemed. Kiti is a cat, a dreamer and a maker who invents games and stories, and in this tale that imagination works for and against her at the same time: it is what fills the dark with things that are not there, and also what lets her look at it differently. The story treats fear of the night without denying it. Nobody tells her there is nothing there, because that is no use to a child. They show her what is there, which is different and works better.

What this piece works on

• •Naming a fear, which is the first step to making it manageable.
• •The difference between what we imagine in the dark and what is actually there.
• •Courage understood as doing something while afraid, not as not being afraid.