Reviews
“The wonderful Hoipolloi is our leading purveyor of theatrical whimsy… This brief evening – childlike, but not childish and aimed at all ages – takes the 14 rhyming couplets of one of Gorey's best-known stories and transforms them into a piece of visual theatre that captures all the Victorian pastiche, fantastical imagination and ominous air of Gorey's original.”
The Guardian
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“To judge by the audience’s steady giggles, the hairy, dodo-like being that takes up residence is also a source of comedy, pure and simple… Little wonder that Hoipolloi’s likeable, user-friendly performance has been deemed suitable for eight-year-olds and above.”
The Times
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“Judging from the belly laughs beside me, this will be a hit with children from seven upwards… it was refreshingly bizarre, well wrought and deftly structured.”
Watford Observer
“The perfect comedy timing, wonderful body language and nervous disposition of the cast make for hilarious stuff. It’s a chuckle-a-minute high quality piece that laughs in the face of ‘serious’ theatre.”
Hemel Hempstead Today
