Life is much better inside this production’s wonderful world because you can do anything by pulling a string.
The double meaning of its core message is appreciated by accompanying adults, but the two to six year-olds of the target audience can fully grasp the underlying significance and are gripped by the imagination of writers Joseph Coelho and Tim Webb, which is engrossing but never threatening.
We begin by following a tail of string that leads us into the theatre and Claire de Loon’s beautiful set of stringy houses, stringy trees and stringy clouds. Most magical of all for the children is mechanical sculptor Nik Ramage’s string machine, which bursts into life with the help of enthusiastic audience participation and delivers a brood of string babies. Its mystery is underlined by soothing, hypnotic music provided by Nik Ammar and his string instruments.
The minimal plot requires only that the string babies be returned to their string parents. But the process is made absorbing by the touchy-feely Stringy (Jumoke Oke), Lowri James deft handling of doggy, a stringy dog, and Griff Fender who, in the nicest possible way, lives up to his character’s name of Ropey.
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