George's Marvellous Medicine
From: Tuesday, 8th February 2011
To: Saturday, 12 February 2011
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Our Review:
9 February 2011
Roald Dahl’s recurring themes of ill befalling the rude and obnoxious and the importance of good manners are all on display in the Birmingham Stage Company’s production of George’s Marvellous Medicine.
George, a school boy left to amuse himself for the holidays has his revolting grandmother forced upon him, when she comes to stay indefinitely. What is a boy wrapped up in his book of wizardry to do? Well, create a potion and cast a spell to make her nicer, of course.
From this basic pre-text a tale of giant chickens and Nobel Prizes spirals out of George’s control to the obvious amusement of the audience.
The central performances are patchy. Iain Ridley, as George is great and full of energy, as he throws yet more vile ingredients into the pot. Granny (Deborah Vale) is less convincing and her rendition was too pantomime dame and not quite unpleasant enough. This is Roald Dahl, after all, in his world villains...
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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