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HAVING a 6.30pm performance is wonderful for young children.
The
opening night audience of Attic Theatre's Mother Goose was full of
them and in spite of their youth they knew just how to behave at an
Attic pantomime - ie boo when you don't like it, cheer when you do
and wave your flag furiously when you need magic.
The
recipe may be well tried and tested but how it works - they even
clapped along to the overture.
Mother
Goose is the tale of a couple of young lovers who can't marry as
they have no money.
When
Priscilla (Pamela Gerrie) lays golden eggs it seems their troubles
are over.
Dead-eye
Dick has other ideas and the good fairy and wicked wizard fight it
out. In the end all is well.
As
Mother Goose, Brian Ptterson really throws himself - and his wig,
skirt and off the shoulder apron - into the role. HE fills
pauses with ad libs like a real trouper. Thomas Forbes as
Handy Andy glows with humour.
Joan
Logan's thigh slapping Jack and Iona Carmichael's Pru make a well
matched pair.
At times
voice projection is weak but the audience would have been louder
anyway.
This
tale should give joy to kids from 3 to 93 - one of the silliest,
funniest and most entertaining of pantos. If you're quick to
get tickets you can catch it nightly until 23 December.
Mary
Dalgity
Thursday 9 December 1999 |
