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The Queen of Colours
- Tour & Scottish Premiere.
Part of the 2003 Bank Of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival.
Writers, Directors and Performers - Eva Noell and Paul Olbrich.
Musician - Tobias Rank.
Company - Theater Waidspeicher
Puppentheater Erfurt from Germany.
Seen to review at Tuesday 27 May at Traverse Garage Royal Lyceum
Theatre Edinburgh.
Run Time - 45 mins.
Suggested Age - 4 - 8 years.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Won't appeal to some.
The Court painter and the Court musician are arranged either side of the
stage. In the middle on the backcloth is an semi circle of white. To gasps
of delight a hand appears and a paint brush.
The Queen of Colours lives in a black and white castle, sleeps (noisily)
on a black and white bed, outside the tree she swings on with one arm
too is black and white. Imperiously the Queen orders the Court Painter
to add colour to her life.
Red is the first which sends everyone a little wild, then blue which cools
too much, so yellow to warm things up. Each colour has its upside and
its down and the Queen is very entertaining as she explores the different
worlds and orders the musician and painter about.
The live cartoon created as we watch has lots of jokes about the fact
it's happening through paint and paper. While the Queen, a rod shadow
puppet with a marvellous thread arm and wispy hair that stands on end
at times, contains both power and loneliness as moved and voiced by Paul
Olbrich. It mostly keep the audience watching but this may not appeal
to children who like their theatre with a lot of physical action or are
highly adversed to the calming, almost controlling performance from Eva
Noell's Court Painter.
© Thelma Good 2 June 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
More
info and reviews on the annual Bank of Scotland Children's International
Theatre Festival.
The Scottish dates
2 June at 10.30am & 1.00pm
3 June at 1.00pm & 5.30pm
4 June at 1.00pm & 5.30pm. all at Edinburgh Traverse Theatre
0131 228 1404.
6 June at 1:30pm Stirling macRobert 01786 466666.
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
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