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| Odyssey Theatre (Hijinx)- The Good, The Bad, and the Cuddly , chapter, Cardiff , June 28, 2003 |
| We’re in colourful, cartoon, cowboy country with broad and hilarious antics to ensure that, yeah ah! Every one is having a good time. There’s a saloon with sassy saloon girls, a honky-tonk piano, good guys, bad guys, High Noon and Wagon Train! There was a young cowboy in Mike Povey’s recent play ‘Indian Country’. He and the ‘plot’ of this show brought back memories to us war-time babies, of our early picture-going with those simple stories starring Gene Autry, Billy The Kid and a young John Waine. The cowboy was our first hero, our first aspiration. Ignoring the complexities of the modern day Western, this show took us back there out on the prairie of those good old days with its escaping convicts, gold diggers and the good guys winning in the end and celebrated by a lively dance and riotous sing song. We all wanted to get up and join in! The script was devised by Gaynor Lougher and Paul Conway; currently Paul is completing a script of a new play “ I Shot Buffalo Bill” which is to be Hijinx next community tour starting 24th September 2003. “Odyssey Theatre (a part of Hijinx Theatre Company) is a performance group for anyone who has a desire to perform, including adults with learning disabilities”. Hijinx current production “Full Circle” is a play devised to appeal to an audience with these difficulties, again reflecting artistic director, Gaynor Lougher’s aims to relate strongly to the whole community. Here we have mixture of professional actors and special needs adults and it's hard to tell whose energy is driving who. Every one was having a fun time, a fun time that quickly infected all the audience. It is one huge, glorious celebration of what is good in humanity and as culturally relevant as any production from the Royal Shakespeare Company. They can’t guarantee that you will always have a good time but here, every one the actors and every member of the audience had a great time. Set up in 1999 this is the sixth Odyssey Theatre production, audiences continue to build and Hijinx are currently in negotiations with the Arts Council of Wales to consolidate the Odyssey into Hijinx core funding to secure the long term future of this very valuable project. |
Reviewed by: Michael Kelligan |
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