This was a show billed for the younger audience, yet it was a complete enchantment for me, a fully-grown adult with no child in tow! From the very beginning, I was enraptured by puppeteer and shadowgrapher Drew Colby, both by his performance persona and by his mind-boggling ability to create extraordinarily animated hand-shadows. I had […]

Best of luck, says the man with the shotgun. Keep to the middle of the path. Listen to the woods. Follow the crows. And off we go, through the gates, to sit in a big circle under a grand old tree, round the charcoaled remnants of a fire. ‘Sorrow’ caws my crow, who is wearing […]

Oh, look! Look at their little feet! And their sweet little faces – look at those markings! And look at that one – his little whiskers! Odd Comic’s Dot Howard and Holly Bodmer come towards us, making ‘here kitty kitty’ noises. It’s one of many moments in which we’re cast as the pets. Taking this […]

I read somewhere that the gong is the only instrument that grows louder after it is struck, and so it is with this show. Not only during the actual performance, but also subsequently, has my appreciation for it grown. It is part of a series presented in this super-cute venue from Arcade of Fools, all […]

The Ice Cream Van’s Hunger thrilled from the very beginning. The curtains open to a monster mash of performers piled high, and tangled up to resemble Alex Scheffler’s illustration of the Horrible Beast in Julia Donaldson’s Room on the Broom. Hunger’s four-headed beast turn round slowly and spectacularly to reveal a bloody mass of fabulously […]