Grandma and Lucy are up in the attic where all the memories are stored. Read more …
Hidden in dusty containers at the top of the house, they have been waiting a long time to come out and play.
Come up the stairs, blow away the cobwebs and peep into the boxes. Who knows what might happen when the sleepy attic comes to life.
With a score by David Paul Jones, played live by Keith McLeish, the show is perfectly pitched at an age group for whom one of life’s great dilemmas is the choice between a sweet and a surprise. The surprises win out, but it’s touch and go. And by letting us finish with our own tea party – hats, knitted cakes, the works – Darwin-Edwards and Crawford make us feel welcome in the same imaginative world.
It’s great fun, but I reckon than even a two-year-old has enough sense of narrative structure to wonder why the story has no ending; and not so much as a final satisfying wave goodbye.
On Tour, from Tuesday February 21, 2012, until Saturday March 17, 2012.
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