Charlie and Lola's Extremely New Play
From: Saturday, 27th April 2013
To: Saturday, 17 August 2013
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for Charlie and Lola's Extremely New Play tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
Based on the well- loved BBC characters created by Lauren Child, Charlie and Lola take audiences on a journey through the seasons to discover everything is different and not the same.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 7 May 2013
There have been so many advances in the use of puppetry and music in mainstream theatre recently that it's slightly disappointing to find the dear little Polka Theatre still using cut-out cartoons and the whole audio side of things piped on a soundtrack.
In his defence, director Roman Stefanski might point to the primitive, one-dimensional simplicity of children's author Lauren Child's characters - Charlie and Lola are brother and sister, and Lola has a best friend Lotta - and indeed story lines: Charlie's chum Marv has a dog called Sizzles whom the girls take for a walk in the park, and lose, and find again.
Jonathan Lloyd's adaptation and Laura McEwen's design are certainly faithful to all this simplicity, and it's fair to say that the target audience of 4-7 year-olds was enthralled - especially when the theatre was engulfed in snowflakes in winter and then bubbles and flying fish on a visit to the pond in t...
Cast
Ceri Ashcroft
Aya Nakamura
Matthew Crowfoot
Sanjay Shelat
Phil Yarrow
Max Cherrie (voices)
Carys Hobbs (voices)
Ellie Dadd (voices)
Eliot Carrington (voices)
Creative
Polka Theatre (Producer)
BBC Worldwide (Producer)
Roman Stefanski (Director)
Laura McEwen (Design)
Julian Butler (Sound)
Julian Butler (Music)
Douglas Kuhrt (Lighting)
Related Whatsonstage.com Articles
Information
|
