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EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM
- Tour & World Premiere.
Adapted from the story by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Director - Chris Duffy
Designer - Kim Bergsagel
Artistic Director - Symon Macintyre
Composer - Keiran Chung
Puppeteers - Eileen Ramsay & Symon Macintyre
Company - The Puppet Lab
0131 554 8923 info@puppet-lab.com .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Adam Smith Theatre Kirkcaldy.
Reviewer - Maureen Sangster.
A subtle entertainment.
On a breathtakingly beautiful raised set The Puppet Lab create a miniature
world of trees, a river, a well, and Mother Hubbard's house. The puppeteers
rotate the set as they animate a magical world of nursery characters.
As they do so we see Tom Thumb falling into the plum pie Mother Hubbard
is making, Baby Bear losing his football up a tree and then Jack and Jill
quarrelling over their bucket by the well. The show is packed with varied
surroundings and stories.
The charm of this show is in the detail - of the puppets, of the shiny
tiny pans in Mother Hubbard's kitchen, even in the incidental characters
like the sparkling crow flying away with Baby Bear's ball, or the sound
of sheep getting fainter as the puppeter Symon Macintyre moves the flock
away into the distance. At times though the attentiveness to detail and
the concentration required to note everything is a drawback. At the Adam
Smith the very little ones were restless - it maybe better suited for
the 5+ child..
Despite the wonderful set the show could gain from more opportunies to
move out and interact with the audience as when Baby Bear shakes his lost
ball out of a tree and it bounces out in amongst the audience. The puppet
world would draw closer to us if the puppeteers animate some of the puppets
in front of the set.
Yet it did engage, for children were discussing on leaving who amongst
the many nursery rhyme characters was their favourite. The two tireless
puppeteers create these characters well, providing voices and sound effects
for Scruff the dog, the hapless Tom thumb, Mother Hubbard, Cinderella,
the three Bears, Baby Bunting, Bo Peep, the very amusing quarrelsome Jack
and Jill, the wicked Witch and Robin Hood. There is humour throughout
and is certainly worth going to see.
© Maureen Sangster 16 October 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
2003 Tour Details of The Puppet Lab's production
of Each Peach Pear Plum .
Tour begins
28 Sep at 2.30 pm Tewkesbury Roses Theatre 01684 295074
29 Sep at 4.00 pm& 5.15pm Liskerd Serts Theatre 01579 362 382
4 Oct at 2pm London Chat's Palace 02085330227
5 Oct at 3pm Barnet The Bull 02085330227
7 Oct at 1.30 pm Ludlow Assembly Room01584 873 229
11 Oct at 2.30pm Portree Isle of Skye Aros Hall 01478 613649
12 Oct at 3pm Beauly Phipps 01463 724 261
13 Oct at 3pm Inverness Culduthel Hall01463 724 262
16 Oct at 2pm Kirkcaldy Adam Smith Theatre 01592 412929
18 Oct at 11 and 2 Cardiff The Sherman Theatre 029 2064 6900
19 Oct at 2pm Brighton Theatre Komedia 01273 647100
21 - 24 Oct at 10am and 11.30am London Polka Adventure Theatre 020 8545
8368
25 Oct at 11am and 2pm Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal 01284 769505
26 Oct at 3pm Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre 01892 678678
27 Oct at 1.30pm East Grinstead Chequer Mead Arts Centre 01342 302000
30 Oct at Dorchester Arts Centre School 01305 266926
31 Oct at 3pm Barnsley United Villages 01226391112
2 & 3 Nov at Belfast Festival , Old Museum Arts Centre 028 90 27 26
27
6 & 7 Nov at Derry Playhouse 029 7126 4481
8 Nov at 11am and 2pm Magherafelt 6 Church Street 028 7963 1510
10 Nov at 10.30am and 4.30pm Antrim Clotworthy Arts Centre 028 9442 8000
11 Nov at 10am + 7pm Rasharkin Community Centre 028 2766 2280
14 Nov at 7pm Listowel St Johns Arts Centre Ireland 00353 68 22566
15 Nov at 3.30pm Friars Gate Theatre Kilmallock, Ireland 00 353 6398727
16 Nov at 3:30pm Wexford Arts Centre Ireland 00353 53 23764
18 Nov at 10.30am + 12:30pm Lisburn Island Arts Centre Ireland 028 92509509
20 & 21 Nov at 11am & 1pm Bangor North Down Tower House 02891
278033
29 Nov at 1.30pm and 3.30pm Tollie House 01228 534 781
6 Dec at 2.30pm Hemel Hempstead The Old Town Hall 01442 228 095
7 Dec at 2.30pm Cranbrook Kent Queens Hall Theatre 07721 463377
8 - 13 Dec Hereford Courtyard Theatre 01432 359252
15 Dec at 10.30am and 1.15pm Bishop Auckland Town Hall 01388602610
Tour ends
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