A story for many who have by no means fitted in, for many who’ve by no means discovered their tribe, a story of the implications of the alternatives we make.
Lewis Heatherington might by no means be accused of missing ambition, or of bravery in creative imaginative and prescient. Always delivering tales with each chew and coronary heart. This yr it’s his imaginative tackle the story of Rumplestiltskin.
Poor outdated Rumple doesn’t know what he’s. Abandoned at delivery and left within the care of ‘Aunty Janet’ the hedgehog, in her house for misplaced creatures, Rumple struggles to search out his area of interest. Is he a Troll, a Goblin, a Bog Monster? No-one is aware of. Hugely clever and reality obsessed, the intelligent younger creature known as upon to do the lion’s share of the chores. When he heads to highschool issues don’t get any higher he manages to make one pal Little Bunny Plop Plop however when her head is turned by the cool gang, she sees her probability to scramble up on the earth and throws away their friendship to pursue Prince Duncan McWoof.
Rumple immerses himself within the library. Among the stacks of books he finds one that’s actually magical. He throws off his outdated life and lives within the magical realm the place his powers are supreme. His former bunny pal ultimately turns into Princess, then Queen after a cope with Rumple (whom she can’t bear in mind), a deal the place she agrees to give up the factor that’s most treasured to her on the earth when Rumple calls the favour in.
At simply an hour’s working time, it is a huge story with huge themes packed in: loneliness, rejection, penalties of alternative, forgetting your roots. There’s quite a lot of thought-provoking materials right here. It is fantastically informed with essentially the most gorgeously lit, simplistic however ingenious set. It is extremely satisfying for adults but it surely should be mentioned that it might whizz proper over the youthful members of the viewers’s heads. To fulfill the children nevertheless, there are many upbeat tunes and the perfect use ever of The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me as a hysterical duet between Duncan and Bunny. The tiny forged are wonderful, aided by native theatre college students to flesh out the motion.
Hetherington and Platform need to be applauded as soon as once more for difficult, by no means patronising and at all times entertaining when it might be really easy to go down the simple route. An old- long-established fairy story re-told fantastically for the fashionable age.
Runs till 24 December 2024 | Images: Euan Robertson
Tickets – https://www.platform-online.co.uk/whats-on/event/1040/
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