Joshua Seigal: We All Love Llamas!

Joshua Seigal has been writing poetry for children and doing workshops and performances in primary schools for six months, and he radiates fun in his debut show.

Bouncing onto the stage, he explains to his largely very young audience that he is going to take them on a journey to explore the power of poetry. "It's an empty shop unit, but now it's a theatre", he says. "What this shows is that some things can be turned into other things."

It helps, of course, if you have a wildly inventive imagination, and fortunately Joshua - or "Joshie Poshie" as he confides his mum used to call him - has this very ingredient, along with an easy rapport with "the boys and girls, and the big boys and girls" in the audience.

The 25-year-old Oxford University and UCL philosophy graduate from Whetstone makes poetry enjoyable and accessible as he cavorts around with cartoonish glee, gyrating his body, gesticulating, and drawing on his props, which include a trainer with a plastic poo, a used-up toilet roll-cum-microphone, a packet of T-bone steak crisps, and a picture of one of his characters, Ushus Magushus.