The Story Giant
Marine Theatre Lyme Regis
By Shanty Theatre Company
Shanty Theatre are well known in Dorset for the ease in which they combine music with narration making their productions quirky, interesting and easy to follow. This is the third production I've seen from Shanty and as you can probably tell... I'm a bit of a fan! Everyone in their cast can play at least one musical instrument! In this particular production one of their actresses played four instruments as well as using vocals to create the music. Apart from one occasionally dodgy american accent these performers really excelled themselves in this family friendly production based on the book by Brian Patten.
I would definitely recommend this if you have small children. They are performing at the Marine theatre in Lyme Regis until August 28th and will also be coming to Poole and Dorchester Arts Centre later on in the year.
My actors notes:
Another performance proving you should acquire as many skills as possible to become more appealing as an actor. They also used digital theatre well in this production. Using dicta-phones to playback as though their thoughts were being said out loud was a really clever way of getting into the characters minds in a comical way. Something that film has been able to trump theatre with for years. ACCENT WORK IS SO IMPORTANT AND LEAVES A LASTING IMPRESSION.
