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Our Wonderful World
from Denmark
Part of the Bank of Scotland Childern's International Theatre Festival
in 2002 more
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Playwright and Director - Giacomo Ravicchio
Translators -
Company - Meridiano Theatre
Denmark
Venue - Traverse
Theatre Edinburgh
Dates - 2
& 3 June at 7:00pm
4 June at 7:00pm (touch tour and audio described performance by
request)
Audience Range - 11+ years 50 mins
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Strong dramatic core, excellently acted
Paul's still got a mother even though he's forty. She likes to phone him
up and spend time with him even though they don't live together, in fact
she's quite fun to be with. But lately she seems to forget what she's
just said. Giacomo Ravicchio's script and direction are equally crisp
and economical. Claus Maack Bahnsen is the increasingly concerned and
sometimes angry Paul, Elisabeth Befrits is his grey haired Mum. But they're
not the only people we're aware of. There's Paul's work colleagues, living
in Manchester is his son young Michael and his mother Charlotte last on
the scene is Paul's brother the one who got away stays away and somehow
can't have Mum over or get involved.
The moving deal screens used to make different scenes increasingly echo
the shifting relationship between Paul's Mum and the world. This is a
play about getting older, how memories come and go and how caring makes
us human and sometimes hurt. Designed for children turning into adults
its strong dramatic core, excellently acted in English by two Danish actors
is theatre for all. It never talks down, nor over elaborates instead it
embraces the emotions and the pain and it's truthful all the way through.
A strongly moving play for an age group we often short change but not
here in Ravicchio's Our Wonderful World.
© Thelma Good 2 June 2002
On tour to Shetland from 8 - 10 June 2002
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