Make Believe
From: Tuesday, 18th January 2011
To: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
If you let it, your mind can take you anywhere. But in a world where fantasy and fact collide, is it time to stop pretending and join the real world? After all, it’s only make believe... Isn’t it?
Our Review:
19 January 2011
Make Believe, written and performed by Luke Walker and Sally Lawton, examines how fantasy can become additive if used as a shield against reality. Ironically the authors are reluctant to allow the audience to apply imagination and explain
all plot developments in pedestrian detail reducing any suspense.
Traumatised by a childhood experience Ballerina (Lawton) takes her imaginary friend Jockey (Walker) on a quest that might grant him freedom and end her dependency on illusion. Director Alyx Tole makes good use of the large Contact
Theatre stage and a series of mundane objects to create the quest. The entrance of both characters is highly imaginative. However, neither she nor Lawton is able to generate any sympathy for Ballerina whose passive attitude makes it very
easy to share the irritation expressed by Jockey.
Although there are credible details for the fantasy inhabited by the characters the rel...
Creative
Luke Walker (Author)
Sally Lawton (Author)
Astral Twins (Company)
Alyx Tole (Director)
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