Swallows and Amazons
From: Tuesday, 13th March 2012
To: Saturday, 17 March 2012
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Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 14 March 2012
At first thought, you might decide that Arthur Ransome’s stories about middle-class children having boating adventures at the start of the 1930s were pretty irrelevant in the 2010s. But they’re not. The Swallows and Amazons series is still much read by its intended age-group and – which is even more important – much loved.
This adaptation by Helen Edmundson of the book which started it all takes the audience effortlessly into Ransome’s finely-crafted world through a production by [Tom Morris which balances the natural with the expressionistic through Robert Innes Hopkins’s deceptively minimalist setting and Neil Hannon’s haunting score. After all, letting the imagination loose to work its own magic is a well-pedigreed theatrical technique.
The child characters are all played by actors who can make the young audience suspend any disbelief within a couple of minutes; their elders are also the musicians who double ...
Cast
Celia Adams
Greg Barnett
Neal Craig
Akiya Henry
Adrian Garratt
Alison George
Richard Holt
Katie Moore
Hilary Tones
Jon Trenchard
Sophie Waller
Stewart Wright
Creative
Reynolds (Chichester) (Corporate Sponsor)
National Theatre (Producer)
Children's Touring Partnership (Producer)
Bristol Old Vic ()
Tom Morris (Director)
Robert Innes Hopkins (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Robert Innes Hopkins (Costume)
Robert Innes Hopkins (Costume)
Liesel Corp (Costume)
Jason Barnes (Sound)
Toby Sedgwick (movement) (Director)
Sam Kenyon (Musical Director)
Sam Kenyon (musical arrangement) (Music)
Andrew Skeet (additional musical arrangement) (Music)
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