George's Marvellous Medicine
From: Tuesday, 13th April 2010
To: Saturday, 17 April 2010
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Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 14 April 2010
Children are much better at memorising passages from favourite books than adults. Take the long, long list of concoctions which go to make up George’s marvellous medicine in the Roald Dahl book of the same name, cleverly adapted for the stage by David Wood. When it comes to making up a fresh batch in the second act of Phil Clark’s production for the Birmingham Stage Company, the audience knows exactly which peculiar additive is missing. No wonder there’s a “don’t try this at home” warning at the end of the show and in the souvenir programme.
The farmhouse set by Jacqueline Trousdale has just the right mixture of realism and distortion and the special effects and puppetry are very well handled. Farmyard noises greet the audience as it arrives and there’s an obbligato of squelches and plops, cackles, grunts, bellows and snores as the action progresses; sound design is by Tom Lishman. Alison Fitzjohn and Tom Woodman are a th...
Cast
Clark Devlin (George)
Erika Poole (Grandma)
Alison Fitzjohn
Thomas Woodman
Jason O'Brien
Creative
Roald Dahl (Author)
Birmingham Stage Company (Company)
David Wood (Adaptation)
Phil Clark (Director)
Jackie Tousdale (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
Matthew Scott (Music)
Tom Lishman (Sound)
Roman Stefanski (puppet master) (Other)
Gillian Malster (costume supervisor) (Costume)
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