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Buster
from Northern Ireland
Part of the Bank of Scotland Childern's International Theatre Festival
in 2002 more
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Creator - Paul Bosco McEneaney
Director - Zoe Seaton
Set Designer - Stewart Marshall
Composer - Paul Boyd
Choreographer - Nicola Curry
Puppet Design - Frank Quinn
Costume Designer - Elish Hogg
Illusion Builder and Designer - Paul Gomac
Company - CAHOOTS NI
Venue - Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Dates - public
performances 31 May at 2:30pm (schools and families) and 1 June
at 2:30pm
Audience Range - 5 - 12 50 minutes no dialogue
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Fails to pull out the theatrical, storytelling rabbit
There may be magic in this piece, and some clear moments, but the story
halts when the spooky doll Dolly grows and moves, performed by Cressida
Carre. Dolly's a fairly scary doll when she's small - think cheap
horror film but the dance strongly reveals the show's underlying kitchness
and swamps its more interesting and creative surrealness. The rather insistent
music score becomes just too wearing making you feel manipulated rather
than entertained. The style is strongly oldfashioned, which may please
older Grannies and younger children but it risks older children getting
restless with its ultimately patronising though wordless approach.
Buster, Paul Bosco McEneaney is a odd guy living in a house where
everything is a bit out of kilter, when he returns home the home and himself,
reveal lots of tricks which could be more strongly linked to the tale.
Sometimes it feel more like a magic show than a dramatised story, but
there's signs of where Cahoot might be heading, where music, actions not
words and tricks up the sleeve could fuse into fun giving a show accessible
to all. But Cahoots, a new company fails to get the theatrical, storytelling
rabbit out of the magic hat in Buster.
© Thelma Good 30 May 2002
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