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SPEND A PENNY
Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Tue 28 & Wed 29 Oct & Gilmorehill12, Glasgow. Thu 30 Oct .0.
Shona Reppe is one of the most captivating performers on the children's stage. Her huge, sparkling eyes twinkle out into theatres and create instant rapport with the audience. She’s almost other-worldy, like a sprite creating magic with her hand-made puppets and intricate sets.
And so her latest show, Spend a Penny, is eagerly anticipated by big and little fans alike. The first impression is good. Standing all in brown with a blue knitted pinny, Reppe introduces a lovely-looking squishy rabbit, Puffy. She tells us, she was supposed to be babysitting him but double-booked with the show. Puffy has to ‘spend a penny’ in the toilet sense, but the pun is rather lost on the younger crowd. Puffy then discovers a meter in which he realises if he spends an actual penny. magic things start happening. Reppe has painstakingly created a set that features tiny chests. drawers and cupboards that open from all angles and from which an array of treats emerge. Within this space two main puppets, Herring the boy and Purl the girl, spend their pennies finding horns, coloured wool hair and music, dancing and playing. A sense of sunny, pastoral dreaminess reigns with sounds of twittering birdsong and bright, warm lighting.
lt‘s charming and lovely and often witty, but the dreaminess is sometimes a bit too vague. Unlike her hit show, Cinderella, in which a familiar plot could be played with, Spend a Penny, takes on quite abstract spaces. Objects and sounds appearing and disappearing sustain the piece but not always the momentum. For all the enchantment and fun there is unfortunately too little pull from the characters or plot to engage completely. It’s all there in style but a little re-working of story would bring the twinkles in Shona Reppe’s eyes out in her audience's. And we really want them there ‘cos we know she can do it, oh beautiful fairy puppet- making queen. (Ruth Hedges)
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ActiVItieS And Fun
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Kids
Oscar Wilde said: ‘All art is quite useless.‘ On seeing an exhibition of children’s art, Picasso said: ‘When I was their age. I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.‘ However useless or whatever your age and talents, it's time to give it a go and set the creative juices flowing. The nationwide campaign. The Big Draw, to get people scribbling, returns with an array of colourful activities. Here is a comprehensive guide for those on in your area
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