Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
Mon, 4 Aug 2003, 12:27 pmLeah Maher1 post in thread
Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
Mon, 4 Aug 2003, 12:27 pmHi All
Don't have time for a full and proper review here, but I went to see Merry-Go-Round in the Sea at the Playhouse last Friday and was just blown away.
I read the book for school in Year Ten and I loved it. A few years ago I re-read it and loved it again. It's written very much in adjectives and long descriptive passages and I was really wondering how it would translate to the stage.
Well the answer was bloody brilliantly. The set is amazing to look at, the stage almost a little work of art in it's self. The use of actors who were obviously also dancers was vital for telling the tale through motion as well as words. For this reason it takes a few minuets to get into the swing of the way the play is presented, but it's well worth it.
It completely captivated me the whole way through, the kind of play you don't want to end. The performances were great, particularly those of Rob, Rick, Rob's mother and Huey, really heartbreaking. My only complaint was that the lady who played Rob's little sister was a bit hard to understand. But all that was made up for when the actor playing Rick stood at the back of the stage faceing the audience, reached up to the ledge that formed the second level of the stage and hoisted himself backwards with amazing grace and athleticism, to be standing on that ledge a foot above his head. He made it look easy. He won a lot a female fans just in that split second. And it's pretty rare to hear an audience applaud one move by an actor, but we did.
The performances are all so tight and the whole show flows at a breakneck speed but manges to seem graceful and lazy at the same time. The lighting evokes a Geralton summer so effectively I started to feel a bit warm and the live music provides another level of atmosphere. Actually, that's how I would describe the show; atmospheric.
I advise anyone to beg borrow or steal a ticket. It was just great.
Don't have time for a full and proper review here, but I went to see Merry-Go-Round in the Sea at the Playhouse last Friday and was just blown away.
I read the book for school in Year Ten and I loved it. A few years ago I re-read it and loved it again. It's written very much in adjectives and long descriptive passages and I was really wondering how it would translate to the stage.
Well the answer was bloody brilliantly. The set is amazing to look at, the stage almost a little work of art in it's self. The use of actors who were obviously also dancers was vital for telling the tale through motion as well as words. For this reason it takes a few minuets to get into the swing of the way the play is presented, but it's well worth it.
It completely captivated me the whole way through, the kind of play you don't want to end. The performances were great, particularly those of Rob, Rick, Rob's mother and Huey, really heartbreaking. My only complaint was that the lady who played Rob's little sister was a bit hard to understand. But all that was made up for when the actor playing Rick stood at the back of the stage faceing the audience, reached up to the ledge that formed the second level of the stage and hoisted himself backwards with amazing grace and athleticism, to be standing on that ledge a foot above his head. He made it look easy. He won a lot a female fans just in that split second. And it's pretty rare to hear an audience applaud one move by an actor, but we did.
The performances are all so tight and the whole show flows at a breakneck speed but manges to seem graceful and lazy at the same time. The lighting evokes a Geralton summer so effectively I started to feel a bit warm and the live music provides another level of atmosphere. Actually, that's how I would describe the show; atmospheric.
I advise anyone to beg borrow or steal a ticket. It was just great.