The Invisible Man
From: Saturday, 13th November 2010
To: Sunday, 13 February 2011
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Synopsis
H.G. Wells' thrilling novel comes to life in Ken Hill's West End and Broadway hit show. Combining spectacular magic illusions, a music hall romp and a tragic tale, this production has something for everyone. When the sinister Griffin arrives at the village of Iping, his face swathed in bandages, the curious villages wonder what gruesome secrets his past holds. Was it really a tragic accident that disfigured his face?, is he a dangerous criminal on the run? - even these imaginative yokels cannot guess the real horror.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 25 November 2010
More good clean fun than you’d hoped, and less than you’d like, Ian Talbot’s perfectly enjoyable revival of the late Ken Hill’s 1991 HG Wells adaptation is a brave attempt by the Menier to re-kindle the old Joan Littlewood spirit of Stratford East and stir music hall memories of cheap gags, pierrot shows and magic tricks.
Actually, the pierrot show does no more than establish a theatrical framework (the year is 1904), together with a “Good Old Days” chairman, and the magic, a series of clever low-tech illusions created by the Harry Potter maestro Paul Kieve – who worked with Hill on the original show – are more amusing than amazing.
Roll up, then, to see the flying saucepan, the self-turning newspaper pages, the knife with a mind of its own and the jumbo-sized bosom of Maria Friedman which heaves up and down like an undulating escarpment in the village landscape; the over-endowed Maria, I hasten to add, is craft...
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Ed - 14 January 2011:
Great fun - had a blast...
Cast
Michael Beckley
Gerard Carey
Natalie Casey
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Maria Friedman
Christopher Godwin
Teddy Kempner
John Gordon Sinclair
Jo Stone-Fewings
Gary Wilmot
Creative
Ken Hill (Author)
H.G. Wells (Book)
Chocolate Factory Productions (Company)
Ian Talbot (Director)
Paul Farnsworth (Design)
Matthew Wright (Costume)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
Gareth Owen (Sound)
Paul Kieve (illusions) (Other)
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