Malvern Festival Theatre
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (Children's Touring Partnership)
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (Children's Touring Partnership)
Let your imagination run wild
this week at Malvern Festival Theatres with the incredible new production of
the children’s classic Swallows and Amazons. From the same production company
as Goodnight Mister Tom and directed by Tom Morris, who co-directed the smash
hit War Horse, this show has brilliance stamped all over it and it certainly
delivers in the bucket load!
Arthur Ransome’s original story
has been magically adapted for stage by Helen Edmundson for an immensely
talented cast of thirteen actor musicians to creatively tell the tale of a
group of children and their fantastical adventure on Wildcat Island one summer,
as they join forces with marauding pirates to defeat the treacherous Captain
Flint and recover his lost treasure.
The joy in this production is
endless. It is visually spectacular and a delicious feast for the senses. The
wonderfully inventive use of props and cast perfectly capture a lost sense of
childhood that is injected into the audience who switch from spectator to
participant as the play progresses. Every single cast member is brilliant,
without exception, and demonstrates the most superb talent, not only as actors,
but accomplished musicians and vocalists who enhance the storytelling with Neil
Hammon’s delightful music and lyrics.
This is definitely a production
that you have to experience and it will spark the imagination of young and old.
Swallows and Amazons runs until Saturday.
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