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Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Although ‘Beowulf the Dragon Slayer’ is promoted as suitable for ages from seven few concessions are made for the attention span of such an audience. The tale of Beowulf is enacted by a single performer using wooden puppets carved in the style of engravings from the period. No effort is [...]

Author: Jean Giono Adaptation: Puppet State Theatre Company Director: Ailie Cohen Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: For me this is the best show yet around the Fringe circuit. Jean Giono’s gentle story about a shepherd who devoted his life to planting trees in a barren landscape is here retold with children in mind. First seen at [...]

Creators: The National Black Light Theatre of Prague Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: The National Black Light Theatre of Prague use the legend of notorious fantasist Baron Munchausen as a loose narrative upon which to hang a series of spectacular and occasionally bizarre illusions. Dr Parker, head of York Psychiatric Unit, cures his patients by brutally [...]

Writer: Sergei Prokofiev Adaptor: Stephen Smart and Leigh McCalister Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: Peter and the Wolf is a story we have all heard of, written by the renowned Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. It has been adapted numerous times including by Walt Disney in the 1940’s. This adaptation is the work of Stephen [...]

Writer: Lizzie Allen Composer: Dominic Sales Director: Lizzie Alle Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: With only one performer, one of the best known children’s stories of all time and a set small enough to fit into the back of a car, I really wasn’t sure what to expect when I turned up to see Who’s been [...]

Composer: Chris Davis Writer/Director: Alison Duddle and Bob Frith Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Lighthouse keeper Lenny’s clumsy efforts to make friends alienate rather than attract people. Alone in his lighthouse he has to literally make friends by using puppets to act out social scenes. An unexpected storm gives him the chance to make amends with [...]

By George Orwell Adapted by Blind Summit Reviewer: Marie Kenny For those looking to avoid the silly string and screaming children this festive season, BAC has 1984. Not so full of the joys of Christmas! Audiences may connect this play to Channel 4’s Big Brother which is beamed into our living rooms, but I doubt [...]