Crunch!
By Daniel Goldman and Company
Tangram Theatre Company, Pleasance Edinburgh, Arts Theatre, International Touring
Performed in English
A family show with genuine appeal to both children and adults alike. It’s inventive, imaginative and delivered with a bucket-load of chutzpah.
The SCOTSMAN
Ludicrously delicious and downright silly, but in the best possible way, this comes thoroughly recommended. Simply wonderful.
The LIST
It is hard to overstate the sense of fun that permeates this show.
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
Like a panto without the rubbish bits, it’s a family show that delights its cross-generational audience.
METRO
The most original ideas of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
THREE WEEKS
Sixty minutes of absolute comic and musical bliss.
THE STAGE “MUST SEE”
NOMINATED FOR TOTAL THEATRE ENSEMBLE AWARD
Telling the story of a man called Adam and a woman called Eve who work in the fruit-naming department of Eden Enterprise. When a particularly special fruit arrives, instead of naming it, they eat it, and find themselves banished by the boss and told to find another replacement. Off they go on their quest, a quest that will lead them to meet William Tell, Isaac Newton, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Johnny Appleseed, and a host of other apple-related characters through history. Will it all end apple-y after? You bet it will.
Cast
Troels Findsen (Snake/Isaac Newton/William Tell/Witch/Hera/Pedro), John Hinton (Narrator/Johnny Appleseed/Gessler/Mirror/Athena/God), Sara Lewerth (Eve/Aphrodite), Johan Westergren (Adam/All Seven Dwarfs), Ed Jaspers (Adam, All Seven Dwarfs – cover)
Creative Team
Daniel Goldman (Director), Hiromi Sano (Costume), Gustaf Asterlig (Lighting), Alex Silverman (Music)
After the success of 4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane’s dark hard hitting poem play, making a fun family show about apples probably wasn’t what people were expecting me to do. But it had been an idea that I’d been thinking about for a long time and it was a show that I wanted to make with my ex-Lecoq buddies and so that was that. I wrote a basic scheme for the show, that’s to say a scene by scene structure, and maybe 50% of the dialogue and then the guys came round, everyone wrote songs, I rewrote some of the dialogue I’d written based on the improvisations the team were doing, and we put the show together very quickly.
After a very successful Edinburgh, where most of our audience weren’t the kids we were expecting, the show transferred to the West End (for a short run at the Arts), then to the Warehouse Theatre, then went on tour around the UK and most enjoyably, we played to thousands of teenagers on two visits to Poland for the English Theatre of Warsaw, run for so many years by the beautiful Edward Dargiewicz.
All photos © Idil Sukan