The Terrible Infants

Synopsis

Award-winning theatre company Les Enfants Terribles present the twisted tales of Tum, Tilly, Thingummyboy and friends in a fantastic fusion of puppetry, animation, live music and performance Tilly loved telling tales, but the tales Tilly told tended to be totally untrue...Based upon a series of twisted tales by Oliver Lansley and illustrator/designer Sam Wyer; 'The Terribles Infants' blends puppetry, live music, performance, story-telling and physicality into a highly sensory theatrical feast suitable for big kids and small grown-ups. Meet Tumb, the boy who eats his mum, Thingummyboy with a face even his mother forgets, Little Linena the material girl, Manky Mingus and of course little Tilly and her terrible tail..

Our Review:

24 August 2010

A telephone rings and stops the jaunty music as if to awake us to reality – but what reality is this? Five players reveal an out of the ordinary world that is as charming for adults as it is for children. Leader of the pack Oliver Lansley is a masterful storyteller, revealing his accomplices and their tales with panache, and the whole piece is marvelous fun from beginning to end. We meet Tilly, who tells tales; little Tumb who must chose between his tummy and his mummy, Beatrice, who loves to talk and loathes to listen; and Thingummy Boy, whose life as an ignored child will leave you utterly choked up.

With its magical music and alliteration aplenty, The Terrible Infants is a box of delights. From grizzly bears to inventive puppetry and ingenious umbrella use, these Roald Dahl-esque stories will both delight little ones and remind big ones what it was like to be little at all.

- Miranda Fay Thomas...

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