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Theatre listings > Big Baby. - Tour & Scottish Premiere. Playwright - Brendan Murray. Director - Douglas Irvine. Designer - Caroline Grebbell. Lighting Designer - Paul Ancell. Composer - Daniel Padden. Costume - Liz Boulton. Puppetery Consultant - Shane Connolly. Company - Visible Fictions Theatre Company Company Website. Cast - here . 2005 Tour Dates and Times - here . Seen to review at GilmorehillG12, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow on 10 October 2005. Run Time - 1 hours 30 mins no Interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. At best like an animated Hograth.
Instead of a Rake there's a very precocious child and his easily led parents. Some not all of Murray's blows land squarely. Only some because script is uneven, particularly in Day 6 of Baby's life which just isn't as acerbically written as the rest, though the cast to try to serve its punch as freshly stinking as they can. Janet and John, played with zest by PJ Hendry and Claire Knight, are a country couple with a simple faith in God when first we met them. They're having fun with one another in a field. The consequence puts in his appears pretty fast and Day 1 of Baby's life begins. With the frolic and the birth. An astonishingly early talker he also has an effect on people who meet him, as he radiates and rises up in the air glowing. All the cast are white-faced and with the text using lots of deliciously ornate words and sentence structure - Baby's into Shakespeare pretty quick - the play is set in a period 250 years ago, but items and personages from the future also appear. The London the family are presuaed to move to to benefit their offspring is nearly as confusing and corrupting as today's. Baby's a superbly expressive puppet marvellously manipulated by actor David Walshe, while all the people the trio encounter in this tale are played with panache and flair in very quick-changes by the versatile actor Simon Donaldson. His Prime Minister at the end is a guffaw-making pleasure. Played on a set consisting of sloped retangular boarded boxes of several sizes, with props and scenery of 2D cardboard, Big Baby does not develop the button bursting, clothes splitting vigour of the sharpest satires. But it's worth a look none the less, there's some good physical theatre, verbal fun and subversive comedy writing to be enjoyed. © Thelma Good 10 October 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast - Everybody Elsie - Simon Donaldson, John - PJ Hendry, Janet - Claire Knight and Baby - David Walshe. 2005 Tour Details of Visible Fictions's production of Big Baby . Tour begins 30 Sept at 7pm Paisley Arts Centre 0141 887 1010. 3 Oct at 7:30pm Aboyne Deeside Theatre 01339 886 222. 4 Oct at 7:30pm Kirkcaldy Adam Smith Theatre 01592 412 929. 5 Oct at 7:15pm Stirling WYSIWYG at macrobert 01786 466 666. 7 Oct at 2pm & 7pm Edinburgh North Edinburgh Arts 0131 315 2151. 10 - 12 Oct at 7:30pm Glasgow Gilmorehill G12 0141 330 5522. 13 Oct at 7pm Bolton Octagon Theatre 01204 520 661. 15 Oct at 8pm Kilmarnock Palace Theatre 01563 554 900. 19 Oct at 8pm Oban Corran Halls 01631 567 333. 20 - 21 Oct at 8pm St Andrews Byre Theatre 01334 475 000. 24 Oct at 7pm Inverness Culloden Academy 01463 792794. 26 Oct at 7.00pm & 27 Oct at 10.30am & 1.30pm Glasgow Castlemilk Youth Complex 0141 287 9835. 28 Oct at 8pm Livingstone Howden Park Centre 01506 433 634. 31 Oct at 7pm Fraserburgh Dalrymple Hall Arts 01346 518 761. 2 Nov at 1:30pm Dunkeld Birnam Institute 01350 727 674. 3 - 5 Nov at 7:30pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 0131 228 1404. 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 information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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