Bagpuss
From: Thursday, 9th December 2010
To: Sunday, 9 January 2011
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 12 December 2010
There were only 13 short episodes of Bagpuss on children’s television in 1974, but the pink, stripy moggy and friends in Emily’s shop have remained firm favourites through repeat showings and commercial exploitation. Now Bagpuss (“live on stage”) must surely be a prequel to “Bagpuss, the Musical” and a Hollywood franchise.
Or maybe not. Though Jonathan Lloyd’s adaptation, using three of the stories, is a little saggy and baggy, rather like the fat furry cat-puss himself, it recreates exactly the tone of winsome, unpretentious charm of Olivier Postgate and Peter Firmin’s creation, the shop coming to life with an older and younger Emily (Georgina Sowerby and Susan Harrison) manipulating the inanimate dolls and doing all the voices, and the songs, pretty well.
Suzanne Gorman’s production, co-presented with the Birmingham Stage Company, is reverently and accurately designed by Jackie Trousdale; it...
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Oliver Postgate (Author)
Peter Firmin (Author)
Soho Theatre (Producer)
Birmingham Stage Company (Company)
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