Peter and the Wolf: Sea Legs Puppet Theatre
The Hive music and media centre, Shrewsbury
Peter and the Wolf was a very enjoyable puppet show… I could easily class it as the best puppet show I have ever seen…
The show itself was performed by Sea Legs Puppet Theatre. It is set in Russia where the “Storyteller” goes to find a new story… there he meets Peter’s grandfather who tells him all about the events that happened when his grandson visited his house to play, and they discover that the hungry wolf is hiding in the woods… from there the story continues…
The presentation of the show was very well done and entertaining with simple models to show the “storyteller” travelling from his home all the way to Russia, it was very simple how it was done but one of the highlights of the evening that everyone enjoyed.
All the performing was done by just the storyteller himself with Sergei Prokofiev’s orchestrated music of the tale providing a good background and variety to all the puppets giving them character and filling them with life. The music was almost film quality in some places as the way it was used sometimes made the whole room happy, scared, laugh with joy or cheer to events happening in the Storyteller’s world…
The puppets were very well detailed and all looked like they had life and soul, great work from the artist who created the puppets and great work by the puppeteer for bringing them to life in such a brilliant and imaginative way…
The story kept true to the original with a lot of audience involvement. This really was a show that people of all ages could come in and enjoy, nothing about it seemed as if it was aimed at the young audience alone, it was entertaining for all ages. I would happily recommend this to anyone looking for enjoyable, high quality family entertainment.