Bex and Rex in the Beastly Brecks
By John Hinton
Tangram Theatre Company, Tour of festivals and schools in the Brecks, East Anglia
Performed in English
Intelligent, unsettling and ebullient.
The TIMES
Daniel Goldman’s high-spirited production…. has a certain oddball charm.
The Guardian
Unapologetically rough theatre — starkly staged, inclusive, anti-authoritarian.
Evening Standard
Tangram deliver the play with a massive charge of enthusiasm and inventiveness.
Playstosee
The Dragon is simultaneously a light-hearted rendition of a fairy tale and a very serious political satire that fully justifies a trip down to the Elephant and Castle.
British Theatre Guide
If the overall parable is clear enough, its enactment is still startling, and drag on the performance certainly does not.
Reviewsgate
When Bex and her very naughty dog Rex go walking in the Brecks, the last thing they expect is to hear some terrifying noises. Could it be that the Brecks are haunted? And if they are, who or what is doing the haunting? As they run around trying to discover the secret to the mystery, they travel around all the different parts of the Brecks such as heathland, scrub and forest, meeting other characters including Sven, the Swedish Pool Frog, Curlew the Curlew and the Beetles Most surprising of all, when they open their picnic basket, they find that their lunch has been replaced (and very possibly munched) by The Brecksperts, a fact-filled bickering duo… As for the haunting, could it be that a long lost creature has returned? It might, you know!
Cast
Simon Kent, Natalie Simone
Creative Team
John Hinton (Writer), Daniel Goldman (Director), Alexander Genn-Bush (Puppet Maker), Cassandra Fumi (Stage Manager)
Just a lovely commission that allowed John and I to discover an incredible natural habitat – The Brecks – that neither of us knew much about… and also gave me the chance to work with puppets which I hadn’t done since Richard III. Made for schools and festivals, it’s a show that toured Norfolk and Suffolk and really did work in both contexts. A lovely little show I’m very proud of.
All photos © Alex Brenner