Like so many people, I totally love the
Box of Delights BBC television series which I try and watch each advent! As soon as I saw that there was a theatre show of this, one of my favourite books, I tried to book tickets! Sadly I failed last year but was one it as soon as they came on sale this year!
So tonight P, E and myself took the train down to the beautiful Wilton’s
Music Hall.
The theatre whole-heartedly embodies the show, such offering lemon posset ice cream which is referenced several
times throughout the story, although P was not impressed! The programme is a fully detailed newspaper,
‘The Tatchester Times’ which includes games and ‘news items’.
I thought it was cleverly done with a small cast that do a lot of doubling up and make each person
unique. The staging was simple but for the most part effective. There were some lovely, imaginative scenes, like when the old man opens
the Box of Delights and we see a golden, be-jewelled phoenix flying
around the stage before it smolders in its own embers.
However, if you are not familiar with the story I thought it could be confusing with the
the parallel
story lines, time travel, and the cast playing multiple characters.
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