Wednesday 30 September 2009

Shockheaded Peter







































I went to see this production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith having seen it advertised on the London Underground. The play has been touring since 1998 and has travelled the USA, Australia and UK several times; for a show of this nature this is a considerable length of time. It is based on the stories from Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and was adapted into musical opera with the help of an eccentric band called 'The Tiger Lillies'. The play, directed by Julian Bleach remains true to the original story and replicates the bizarre visual form with a greater sense of weirdness! I find this kind of artistic performance fascinating and oddly enchanting, it takes the audience into a peculiar world I would describe as a nightmare situation.


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