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The Selkie Bride
- part of The Puppet Animation Festival 2002
Devisers - Karen Torley and Howard Gayton
Director - Howard Gayton
Designer - Lyndie Wright
Puppeteers - Rebekah Wild and Anthony Best
Company - Little Angel Theatre London 020 7226 1787 website
Venue and Date Seen - Netherbow Theatre Edinburgh 6 April 2002
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Moving tale of love.
Beautifully lit with the sounds of sea and gulls on a set of wooden fish
boxes which transform into a house interior, seascapes and a fishing boat
this production entrances. We go out to sea with a fisherman who tells
us the story of his Grandfather and his silkie bride floatong us off to
the spellbinding magic of storyland.
The selkie bride is the wild, free spirit of the tale, her grasp of land
life providing much humour and later well handled sadness for the life
she left beneath the waves. The selkie puppet has a fey beauty, her fisherman
husband is played with a nautical air by Anthony Best while Rebekah
Wild gives varied life to the many puppets inculding lots of marine
life, sleek seals, gleaming mackrel and a greedy gull. Ordinary objects
like a coffee pot or lampshade also tranform simply and effectively into
lighthouse and a drifting jellyfish.
The Selkie Bride holds children and adults alike in a moving tale of love.
© Thelma Good 6 April 2002
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