Theatr Iolo |
| Theatr Iolo-Under the Carpet , LYCEUM STUDIO, EDINBURGH , June 11, 2009 |
Welsh company Theatr Iolo's Under the Carpet, is a joyful, unpatronising evocation of how young children perceive and respond to the world around them. It's aimed at three to five-year-olds, and though the two storytellers are adult characters, Lol and Nonno, their tales have come originally from the mouths of nursery tots. The result is an oddly surreal, yet totally believable vignette of everyday friendship and domesticity where ordinary tasks or objects can, through the prism of imagination, become special or extraordinary. A lost button, for instance, can set off on all kinds of adventures. A tie can become a slithery snake before a car - well, an iron, actually - flattens it into submission. Stephen Hickman and Jak Poore build these little episodes into a brilliant comedy double act full of little tiffs, huffs and restored cameraderie, all deftly expressed through incidental clowning and music-making. The tinies - unaware of the skills involved - simply adored these two silly chums who seemed to love all the same things as them. |
Reviewed by: THE HERALD, EDINBURGH Mary Brennan |
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