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20,000
Leagues Under The Sea - Tour.
Playwright - Peter Grimes.
Director - Lee Beagley.
Designer - Karen Tennant.
Lighting Designer - Paul Colley.
Music & Soundscape - Jules Bushell.
Video Art - Matt Mawford..
Company - Walk The Plank. Excellent and informative company website
with great links.
The company are based in Salford England, as well as performing on the
MV Fitzcarraldo they also do other spectacular things.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Cruise Liner Terminal, Leith in/near Edinburgh.
Run Time - hours mins including 15 mins interval no Interval .
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Riveting show in riveted metal theatre.
Starting off on the quayside some wet people accost the audience. It
seems the huge sea monster they were hoping to capture has caused their
vessel to sink and got them in the drink. One of them "harpoonerist"
Ned has got quite a bit of drink in him, swaying about saying farewell
to his wife and his bairns - only one when we witnessed their goodbyes.
The other wet persons are a French Professor and his engaging manservant.
Lurking around is a passing landblubber pouring scorn on the storytellers
- he has The Paris Gazette (the cunningly disguised programme, worth a
gander) to sell.
With the story so far told the audience is invited aboard and down into
the ship with the voyagers. There we find the three seafarers swaying
on a metal moving island looking around as one by one they get captured
by a strange being, till they're all beneath the waves, held prisoner
by Captain Nemo. Peter Grimes' version of Jules Verne's story is told
by Walk The Plank with humour and some eye pleasing and surprising video
art. There's a variety of acting styles used, go all the way from from
a David Attenbourgh sound like moment to overhearing the emotional result
of the profound loss Captain Nemo has suffered. Best and frequent use
of a prop goes to their hemisphereical translucent bowl deployed in many
ways including an undersea moments with extraordinary fish and later a
shrimp hand puppet.
It works for adults as well as children old enough to cope with a two
hour show including interval. At times with the throb of the Fitzcarraldo
engines, the riveted metal theatre and the riveting show it felt like
we were aboard the Nautalius too.
© Thelma Good June 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Professor Arronax- Gregory Gudgeon, Captain
Nemo - Sean Rees, Ned Land - Josh Moran and the Professor's manservant,
Conseil - Liam McCormick.
2004 Tour Details of Walk The Plank's
production of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Tour begins
2- 5 June at Port of Dover.
Then at Leith Festival nr Edinburgh
9 June at 6pm.
10 June at 1pm & 6pm.
11 & 12 June at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. All on MV Fitzcarraldo Theatre
Ship moored at Cruise Liner Terminal adj. Ocean Terminal in Leith.
To reserve 0845 458 9709. Pay on the ship on the night.
then at St Magnus Festival Orkney.
19 June at 3.30pm and 7.30pm Stromness Harbour 01856 871445.
21 & 22 June at 5:30pm Kirkwall Harbour 01856 871445.
23rd June at 7.30pm Westray Harbour 01856 871445.
Then
25 June at 7.30pm, 26 June at 4pm and 8pm and 27 June at 2.30pm at Shetland
Isles Lerwick Harbour 01595 692114.
30 July - 1 August TBC at Bristol Harbour Regatta.
4 August at 7pm, 5 & 6 August at 2pm and 7pm Co. Donegal, Killybegs.
9 - 15 August at Belfast Lough incl. Carrickfergus and Bangor
20 - 23 August at 2.30pm and 7.30pm Morecambe Stone Jetty 01524
582803.
26 August at 7.30pm, 27 August at 7.30pm, 28 - 30 August at 2.30pm and
7.30pm Cardiff Summer Festival.
Tour ends.
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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