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Clockwork


The critical consensus

The cast conjure up a rich world of curiosity with little more than a hypnotic piano-and-cello score.

Shona Craven, Onstage Scotland, 15/04/2011

Douglas Irvine's adaptation is brisk and beautiful, but sometimes over-elaborate in visual detail, as it juggles sets and terrific puppets and strong woodcut-style visual images. The music, though, is never less than entertaining, delivered by a fine cast of three with two on-stage musicians.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 16/04/2011

Ironically for a show that uses the heart as its central image, Clockwork is short of a heart of its own, making it a cerebral pleasure but not an emotional one.

Mark Fisher, Northings, 12/05/2011

As cleverly contrived as an intricate mechanism of meshing cogs – and about as cuddly.

Clare Brennan, The Observer, 29/05/2011


Features about Clockwork

Philip Pullman's Clockwork to be brought to life by Visible Fictions and Scottish Opera

Kelly Apter, The List, 24/03/2011

Creating a kids' opera is a devilishly tricky task

Mary Brennan, The Herald, 07/04/2011

Where and when?

On Tour, from Wednesday April 13, 2011, until Saturday June 11, 2011.

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