Genre: Childrens/adult theatre piece with a little bit of magic thrown in and bucketfuls of charm reducing this audience member to a sobbing heap! Yet inspirational and uplifting too, and extremely well acted and constructed. i absolutely loved it!
It is the true story of a young Japanese girl and her best friend, a sports enthusiast who fell victim to leukaemia from the atom bomb in the 50's. Today children from all over the world who have read her inspiring story of belief make and string hundreds of paper cranes and send to her memorial in the Peace Park in Hiroshima, ( I've seen them!)
Very energetic performance, and a lot of laughs, with comic characterisations, the hundreds of origami paper cranes, magic-ed out of the actors' hands, incredibly easy but lovely set once the cranes begin to appear.
Lots of audience interaction, in fact the show begins as you come in with the children Sadko and Chisiko doing their training for the school and national sports, with huge energy, later searching for paper, squirting water which keeps up the pace and narrative.
Lighting was great, but there were several things dropping from the heavens, snow, glitter, cranes, which may be hard to do in Village Halls, but what do I know of technicalities such as this!
Otherwise it is perfect for Rural Touring; could be tied into workshops or a module on the end of the 2nd World War for secondary schools, though young children will also gain much from it.
Definitely should be booked.
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