Feature: Error 404 – Philosophy for 8 year olds
With its server message title, and a plot "about a boy who's best friend is a robot", you'd be forgiven for assuming that Polka Theatre's Error 404 is another e...
Children
Review: Yeh Shen – The Chinese Cinderella, The Albany
Long before there was Cinderella, there was Yeh Shen, a young girl who lives with her stepmother, stepsister and evil cat. Familiar so far? The basic plot of...
Review: Seesaw, Unicorn Theatre
Seesaw has a running time of 40 minutes "followed by free play time in the sandpit". They got me. Fortunately, I think they also got the intended audience of un...
Review: Rapunzel, Sadler’s Wells
The Easter holiday is well under way and in theatre world there's a bunch of really cool things going on. I've been to a couple of shows now that are market...
Review: How The Whale Became (and Other Tales), Royal Opera House
One might wonder whether creating an opera for very young children is a good idea. It can be hard to follow at the best of times, even with surtitles, and k...
Review: The Snowman, Peacock Theatre
I think everyone will agree that the idea of Christmas without a flying snowman is a horrific and offensive one and, well, actually it's just blasphemy. Every y...