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A Word is A Word
- Scottish Premiere.
Part of the 2003 Bank Of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival.
Director - Henrik Steen.
Cast - here.
Company - Teatret Fair Play from Denmark email
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Seen to review on 31 May at Traverse Edinburgh.
Run Time - 40mins.
Suggested Age - 3 - 6 years.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Simple, imaginative.
There's a man lying on his back polishing a tin surrounded by boxes of
all shapes and sizes. A pixie like person gets us all seated. "Now
we're all here," she says, "lets get started" and runs
behind the fence at the back of the stage.
Some of the boards of the fence lift and she appears and talks to the
prone man. He admits he's bored and so is she. There's nothing in the
boxes so it seems her suggestion of opening a shop isn't going to work.
But a chance remark from the man - "I've got nothing but words"
- gives her a wonderful idea. The shop could sell words. And now when
they open the boxes they find words.
It's a simple, imaginative idea where the words collected in each box
have reasons for being with their fellows. The large box of rude words
is also smelly and the box of angry words gets noisy when the man and
the girl get at odds with each other. She energetically darts about the
place, the man is slower and shyer but together they play at being the
seller and the buyer of words.
They're open to the children's suggestions and reactions, giving the audience
clear expression of delight, alarum and surprise at what they find. It
all goes to make this a fresh, bright peice about how two can have more
fun than one, how acquaintances go thorough rocky and smooth time and
how words can make us fear, bring us friends and make fun happen.
© Thelma Good 31 May 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
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Cast-
Henrik Steen Larsen and Lotte Faarup.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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