'Big Book Tall Tales'
TIME OUT LONDON 1 July 17-24 2002
Chidren are left in no doubt that books lend colour to life when they take part in the tall tales sketched out in this latest show from Booster Cushion Theatre Company . Devised and performed by Philip Sherman for five to nine-yeer olds.lt presses home the companies ethos- 'bringing books to life for children' and urges young people to get Into books,quite literally. Sherman plays Mr Keeper, a broom-wielding janitor in a rainbow- covered dust Jacket, who looks after the neglected tomes inan did library. He's a manic sort,jabbering and . singing at breakneck speed,throwlng out witticisms and tangential observations to his slightly bewildered audience, indulging in occasional high-pitched whoops and gurning comically as ideas come to him. Investigating a large object wrapped in a dust sheet... he uncovers a six-foot book with five pages coloured purple, blue, green, yellow and red. Each colour becomes a character-they're all played by Sherman-and an ingredient in a rainbow-orientated story. A sole storyteller always has his work cut out keeping an audience of children on his side but Sherman's good-natured, teasihg manner was received well. It helps that he can dive enigmatically into his book to re- emerge as someone else, another colour to continue with the rainbow assembling. He is, Of course, two colours short of a full rainbow, but such amiable lunacy wins him many friends in this eccentric 50-minute performance.
Ronnie Haydon
TIME OUT LONDON 1 July 17-24 2002
Chidren are left in no doubt that books lend colour to life when they take part in the tall tales sketched out in this latest show from Booster Cushion Theatre Company . Devised and performed by Philip Sherman for five to nine-yeer olds.lt presses home the companies ethos- 'bringing books to life for children' and urges young people to get Into books,quite literally. Sherman plays Mr Keeper, a broom-wielding janitor in a rainbow- covered dust Jacket, who looks after the neglected tomes inan did library. He's a manic sort,jabbering and . singing at breakneck speed,throwlng out witticisms and tangential observations to his slightly bewildered audience, indulging in occasional high-pitched whoops and gurning comically as ideas come to him. Investigating a large object wrapped in a dust sheet... he uncovers a six-foot book with five pages coloured purple, blue, green, yellow and red. Each colour becomes a character-they're all played by Sherman-and an ingredient in a rainbow-orientated story. A sole storyteller always has his work cut out keeping an audience of children on his side but Sherman's good-natured, teasihg manner was received well. It helps that he can dive enigmatically into his book to re- emerge as someone else, another colour to continue with the rainbow assembling. He is, Of course, two colours short of a full rainbow, but such amiable lunacy wins him many friends in this eccentric 50-minute performance.
Ronnie Haydon
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