There is something about small performance spaces - their cosiness, their character - but most of all I enjoy how up-close and personal the actors can be in such venues. A Stone’s Throw from Student Theatre at Glasgow (STaG) utilizes their Zoo Roxy setting perfectly to create a truly magical children’s theatre production.Dressed like typical indie kids in their summer chinos, the group of six have devised a beautiful tale about a girl who plays a game of stone throwing with her older siblings. In a desperate attempt to match their competitiveness she wrathfully throws a stone into the sky, and in so doing shatters the sun into millions of pieces. Feeling greatly repentant, she must recover all the missing fragments in an attempt to put the sun back together.I particularly loved the narrations by a classically middle-class accented Glasgow boy, which for the first time this Fringe reminded me I am still in Scotland. The soundtrack was perfectly charming, evoking just the right amounts of hope and pathos for the particular scenes, and I revelled in the ingenuity of their experimentation with shadow puppetry. The way in which set, characters, and song captured the attentions of children in the audience was a strangely rewarding experience as an audience member.The play’s resonance with current environmental and climate change issues was the most interesting choice of sub-plot, in my opinion. I felt the cast were raising real awareness in a younger generation through a concept they could properly understand – the loss of the sun. My one pernickety criticism of the production was that I did not find the lead particularly endearing, and though she was meant to be playing a young girl, her performance flitted between this and the characterisation of more mature physical traits that one would see in a young woman. Minor disparagement aside, I would highly recommend this to any and every family as a must see for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.