Lost and Found

Synopsis

Once there was a little boy and one day he found a penguin at his door...he didn't know where it came from or who it belonged to. The penguin looked sad and the boy thought it must be lost. So he decided to help it find its way home, even if that meant rowing all the way to the South Pole.

Our Review:

15 October 2010

Based on Oliver Jeffers’ acclaimed picture books about a boy’s burgeoning friendship with a penguin, Lost and Found starts small, with the wonder of The Boy (Tom Power) discovering a ball under a box, and ends big, as he rows across the ocean, in a delightful puppetry sequence, to bring his new penguin buddy back to the South Pole.

Power’s Boy is an appealing figure, wide eyed and willing to share discoveries with his comfortably cross-legged audience of three to five-year-olds, plus parents.

Here, small gestures count for more, a slowly stacked set of sea blue-painted boxes becoming “a tower!” to the intuitive gaze of a small girl beside me. I hadn’t realised what it was, and I’m glad I was sitting next to the resident expert.

The penguin’s comic arrival draws hooting laughter from the kids, although Derek Elwood’s priceless goggle-eyed expression and orange nose proved too much for one little boy, who made a swift exit stage left with his...

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Latest User Review

E Cullingford - 30 May 2011:

My 3 year old, big fan of the book and tv adaption, did not enjoy the theatre production. I think the pantomime-style noisy penguin jarred with her take on the book and film, and I get why the set is plain, but just one set change would have been welcome.....

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