The scrapbook is a labyrinth of memories with an abundance of places to hide. It is puzzling to everyone except its owner but the clues are in its pages… Read more …
Everything is flat, pressed, squished. A dusty, musty smell mixes with the scent of old lavender. Crushed between pages, released when opened.
A string lifts a flap to reveal a hidden door - a door to a paper room.
A curl of hair is pinned to an old photograph. A crumpled story is smoothed out and slowly, page‐by-page, a curious life unfolds before us. The scrapbook becomes a window into a secret world. But who was Josephine Bean?
A new show by the award-winning Shona Reppe Puppets. For everyone 6 and over.
A truly wonderful show that will charm parents as much as their children.
It’s as stimulating a 50 minutes as you can spend in a theatre, delighting in the joy of discovery, the potential of even the most mundane object to have a transformative magic and the lesson that behind every fantastic story likes a more fantastic one still.
Reppe has created a highly original, beautifully delicate and thoroughly engaging piece of children’s theatre.
The twists and turns through which this story emerges are completely enthralling, like a gossamer-light, fairytale version of a TV pathology show. And every physical and emotional detail of the show has been shaped with such love and care that it not only produces the most satisfying gasps of amazement and excitement from the children in the audience; but is also bound to touch the hearts of the most hardened grown-ups, with the sheer, sweet radiance of its invention, and the generosity of its spirit.
Understated and delicate, this is a simple but carefully crafted feel-good production that will keep the inner child in each of us entertained in a world of happy fantasy – before it’s time to wrap up warm and return to the hard and normal-sized slog of the real world.
The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean puts scrapbook in a laboratory
Curiouser and Curiouser
On Tour, from Saturday October 29, 2011, until Saturday November 26, 2011.
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh from Thursday April 6, 2017, until Saturday April 8, 2017. More info: www.edfringe.com
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