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From the outset, the PuppetCraft cast encouraged a non-frontal and participatory style of theatre, asking children to sit on the floor close to the scenery. Special mention has to go straight away to the sound and music. Sounds were created live using sampling and mixing of the strange and mysterious
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Review originally published on DigYorkshire in October 2013. As seen at Harrogate Theatre as part of All Points North 2013. Sarah Wallis’ The Rain King presents depths of meaning; intensity of character; complicit and knowing humour keeping us on side; profound reserves of talent both in writing and acting; a
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Titus Andronicus was an absolute joy for anyone who likes their Shakespeare shaken up, electro-shocked à la Frankenstein – something rather beautiful and terrible jolted into vivid life, created painstakingly carefully out of pieces that centuries of critics and theatre directors have left for dead. Smooth Faced Gentlemen demonstrated superlative understanding
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The ensemble cast of three open and close The Boy Who Cried Wolf with the ‘clickety click’ of their knitting needles, and the story gradually weaves itself into being, framed by these little poetic and visual moments. Taking this small rural family of mother, son and grandfather as a starting