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

REVIEWS AND AWARDS
SYNOPSIS
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS

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