Huck
From: Thursday, 11th February 2010
To: Saturday, 13 February 2010
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Synopsis
Huck, an outcast teenager and Jim, a runaway slave, are fleeing down the Mississippi on their makeshift raft. Adventures grow wilder, stories taller, and the people they meet more outlandish as they journey through a young America, searching for freedoms without and freedoms within. Age 8+
Our Review:
Suzanne Hawkes - 12 February 2010
I always feel that putting a novel about a river journey on stage, especially such an ethereal novel as Huckleberry Finn ( Twain said persons attempting to find a plot will be shot) is quite a challenge – what do you leave in? what do you leave out? And how do you give an impression of movement and water on such a fixed medium.
Shapeshifter are an innovative company that like to push the boundaries . This was an ambitious attempt to weave a play from a number of different theatre mediums and most of the time this company pulled it off. The set, a very impressive landing stage, was adapted to become (among other things) a raft, a house and a prison. A movable truck to the side served not only as an instrument/prop repository but became a stage for a lovely pastiche of David Garrick performing a very mixed Shakespeare monologue.
Simple props such as planks and logs were used to create rooms, boats, coffins and floating houses...
Creative
James Graham (from the novel by Mark Twain) (Author)
Fresh Glory Productions (Producer)
Shapeshifter (Company)
Chipping Norton Theatre (Producer)
John Terry (Director)
Garance Marneur (Design)
Ben Pacey (Lighting)
Nell Knudsen (Costume)
Pete Readman (Musical Director)
Pete Readman (Music)
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