Beasts and Beauties
From: Friday, 10th December 2010
To: Friday, 31 December 2010
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Michael Coveney - 16 December 2010
Eight fairytales and stories re-told by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy form the basis of this remarkable children’s show, a feast of theatrical imagination and moral and romantic justice. Physical theatre is an over-used term (what theatre isn’t physical?) but not here.
Duffy’s fables were dramatised six years ago at the Bristol Old Vic by Melly Still and Tim Supple; Still’s production is a genuine revival, not a re-heat, on a diamond-shaped bare stage with eight wonderfully skilled and versatile actors speaking mostly in “third person” early Shared Experience style.
We have the horrors of Bluebeard’s castle, where the serial wife-slayer commands his new partner to prepare herself for God; and the medieval spookiness of the Beast’s lair before Beauty’s persistence and devotion leads the yelping monster in a stocking mask and curling talons to a sacramental cleansing.
In lighter vein, the “magnifice...
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Cassox - 22 December 2010:
Not sure if Moscool and Beau clicked on the right show.. Jeremy Irons isn't in this one and the show is 2 hours long, with an interval. Odd. The show is completely brilliant. This is why Melly Still is so rspected at the moment. The cast and stories are scary and funny and the production brimming with amazing theatre....
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