Operation Greenfield

Synopsis

Set in the fictional town of Stokely (somewhere in Middle England), Operation Greenfield is an exploration of faith and music, as seen through the eyes of four teenagers on the rocky road to Stokely Annual Talent Competition glory. Fusing live and recorded music, Elvis obsessions and forest fruit flavoured squash, Little Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, awkward and beautifully naive time of adolescence. The time when you realise that the once simple beliefs you held dear, now need readjusting to face the complexities of adulthood.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 20 May 2011

What a totally unexpected delight is this silly, touching, noisy, energetic little show. Operation Greenfield was an acclaimed nugget on the Edinburgh Fringe last year, but you know how sometimes a new show, especially one involving comedy and loud music, is promoted beyond its true merit...

Well, that hasn’t happened here. Little Bulb Theatre is a vibrant quartet of Kent University graduates – plus a standing cut-out of Elvis in his gold lame suit – which lays down a thrilling shiver of a story about a bunch of no-hopers in Middle England winning a talent competition and preparing for Judgement Day.

When they explode into home-made music making – on guitar, accordion and very funny flute, driven along by Clare Beresford knocking nine bells out of her drum kit – it’s hard not to recall the surprise, liberating barbarity of another rock musical dealing in teenage angst and anxiety, Spring Awakening.

For this, too, is a story of discovery...

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Latest User Review

Brian Doherty - 27 May 2011:

It is a joy. Go and see it....

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