Shona Reppe
Curiouser and Curiouser
Shona Reppe talks of a tiny marvel:
There is something quite unique about the work of Shona Reppe, who is bringing her clever and particular show, The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean to the Scottish Storytelling Centre this week.
Black Beauty
★★★★☆ Humorously inventive:
Black Beauty, the Traverse’s show for all ages this Christmas co-produced with Red Bridge, is a million miles from a straight adaptation of the children’s classic but provides more than enough fun for everyone.
White
★★★★★ Perfect rainbow:
There is a magical sense of discovery to White, the show for two to four year-olds which returns to the Traverse for the run up to Christmas.
Torn
✭✭✭✭✩ Paper cut:
Unfolded and pressed out flat for its audience to see, Faux Theatre’s Torn is an intriguing glimpse at how repressed memories both haunt and return to us.
‘Appy times for White iPad app
Catherine Wheels’ White released as an app:
A new app based on White, the play for 2-4 year olds created by Andy Manley for Catherine Wheels, has been launched in collaboration with East Lothian company Hippotrix.
Easter Holiday Theatre for Children
White, Gruffalo and Puppet Animation Festival hit town By Thom Dibdin Big, small and dotted all around, the variety of theatre for under-tens on offer in Edinburgh this Easter holidays is broad, thanks largely to the very excellent Puppet Animation Festival which is playing in a total of eight smaller venues around the city. The […]
Theatre Review – Cinderella
★★★★★ Magic
With a wave of her magic feather duster and leaving a sprinkling of fairy dust in her wake, Shona Reppe enchants and enthrals children and grownups alike with her puppet version of Cinderella – which is at the Scottish Storytelling Centre all this week as part of the Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival of theatre for Children and Young People.
