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Frog
- (Netherlands) Tour & Scottish Premiere.
Part of the 2004 Bank Of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival
organised by Imaginate.
Script & Lyrics - Dick Field - based on Max Veltuijs' Frog
books.
Director - Theo Terra.
Music - Nick Bult.
Lighting Designer - Geldof, Verhaart & Den Ottolander.
Puppets - Karen Beens.
Cast - Here.
Company - Theater Terra (Netherlands) Company Website.
Venue and Dates - Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Festival Box Off
0131 2284 1404
Family Perfomance 28 May at 5pm.
Seen to review on 26 May 2004 at Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
Run Time - 60mins.
Suggested Age - 4+ years.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Bouncy life to illustrated friends.
Max is going to move house. He's scared. Frighten of going away, leaving
his friends and having to go to a new school. In his attic bedroom, in
a set of strong perspectives, he gets his mother to read him first one
and then another story. Along the way Theater Terra lets us realise with
Max the difference between fear and excitement.
As she tell Max the stories his toys grow in size as Max's bedspread dissolves
into grass, then snow. The packing cases also transform their sides turn
to become a creepy forest, or Little Pig's warm house. And the window
changes so we see Frog and his new chum Rat with the binoculars his old
and now suspicious friends, Little Pig and Hare, are looking through.
Frog Max's puppet toy has adventures with his friends Little Pig and Hare.
There are songs sung by the warm voiced Chista Lips, and the rest of the
company with several tunes that invite the kids spontaneous clapping along.
Between each story there are interludes where Max and his mother go through
the rituals familiar to all who have found sleep hard to find so a drink
of water requests are made along with "just one more story".
This company give bouncy life to a much loved, published and read Dutch
Childrens' characters. If you've not encountered Frog on the page yet,
meeting him on stage have you wanting too. Frog explores friendship, the
stranger who becomes a new friend but divides old ones, the security of
home and the excitement of change. Ideal for a child and its carers, both
like to be reassured it's difficult being scared or having a fright. It
also reminds that there is a contrasting pleasure, the thrill of excitement
when you go somewhere new or find new friends.
© Thelma Good 26 May 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast - Frog - Theo Terra, Hare - Dick Feld, Duck/Mother - Chista Lips
and Little Pig/Rat - Jawi Bakker.
More
info and reviews on the annual Bank of Scotland Children's International
Theatre Festival.
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the
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