David Walliams' The First Hippo on the Moon at Edinburgh Fringe David Walliam's The First Hippo on the Moon.
14 August 2017
Pleasance
4 Stars
The rhythm of the Edinburgh Fringe now has a highly distinctive beat, with a huge range of family shows filling the schedules in the mornings. It's great to see the future theatre audience and makers enjoying live shows, and this one has the makings of a classic.
Walliams is hugely popular, and a skilled story teller, and this terrific ensemble deserve their full houses. The story of Sheila, who dreams of being the first Hippo on the moon, Les Petit Theatre bring the highly original story to life. The puppetry is excellent, the songs funny and catchy, and the characters are hilarious! My particular favorite was Silver Bob, the not so psychic monkey!
There are enough fart and poo jokes to keep the children, and the child within, highly entertained, and some excellent audience participation! It's great fun that kept a packed house of very young viewers royally entertained! Go team Hippo!
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Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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