THE SCOTSMAN - 23rd August 2008 This simple but subtly inventive show makes demands on the target audience's imagination, which is all the recommendation it needs. That there's lots of creative action and movement to keep the attention rapt makes it an amusing and unchallenging hour for parents as well.

The show is split into three stories, each performed by the same four-person cast. As well as Mrs Wobble, who can't walk steadily enough to avoid serving her food all over the audience, we are introduced to Mr Biff the Boxer, who has to get fit before he gets in the ring with Mr Bop and Mrs Plug the Plumber, whose specialities include foiling robbers and saving round-the-world cruise liners when their hulls have been holed. She's also possibly the only plumber in history to turn down a cup of tea before getting on with work.

The stories are told through mime, rhyming couplets and the occasional background illustration or well-placed sound effect. Each is busy with action and visual set-pieces, but just enough not to overload a young audience, while the cast is also uniformly talented at providing consistent, watchable children's theatre.

Written and Directed by
Performed by




Props
Lighting Design
Sound

Pilar Orti and Alexander Perkins
Steve Brownlie
Ruth Hutchinson
Pilar Orti
Alexander Perkins

Kate Rance and Eleni Kourneta
Tracey Hammill
Alexander Perkins and Pilar Orti