An intergalactic fairytale for people aged five to infinity. Fresh from a UK Tour, Gomito’s action-packed whirlwind adventure stars puppets, live music, giant spiders, witches and wizards. “A true masterpiece” Three Weeks on Little Red Things 2007.
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another source - 19th August 2008
"The story was exciting and acted out well "
another source - 14th August 2008
"a play that really should be seen by every child and every adult whose imagination needs re-sparking"
another source - 6th August 2008
"as magical an experience as anything conjured up by Harry Potter or Narnia"
Where on Earth did the past four weeks go? 54 performances across three different shows and that’s it, finito, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008 is complete. It’s a sad day, but also quite a necessary one, everyone involved is exhausted and the dreaded Fringe flu is felling actors left right and centre. Plus it’s not as if we will never do the shows again, it’s only a couple of weeks until The Sun Dragon tour restarts and as soon as we get home we’ll be chasing bookings for Before We Remember... after a good twenty-four hours of sleep of course.
That’s right, it’s official we are in fact superheroes. In a striking example of how cigarette butts and recycling bins don’t mix there was a small fire on the Royal Mile yesterday. Rich our eagle-eyed director spotted it as the other hero of the story- a street performer who makes the most amazing balloon animals- rushed over to help. Together they called for help as I (yes, yes, I play a part) provided a bottle of water to pour over the raging inferno/small area of smoke. The streets of Edinburgh were quickly saved and the Fringe continued undisturbed. Like all the best comic book nemeses, the evil, cigarette smoking pyromaniac disappeared without a trace, presumably he’ll ‘get us pesky kids next time’.
Another day and another wet pair of shoes. Today was Fringe Sunday- a big family day out on the Edinburgh Meadows where Gomito performed a section of The Sun Dragon, the sun was shining, then it wasn’t, then it was….then it really wasn’t.
However rain in Edinburgh is certainly not the biggest news we have for you. Especially on the day that a Fringe company is accused of terrorism. Babolin Theatre Company who created ‘The Parched Lament of Child Farrago’ finished their one week run of the show and yesterday headed back down to Cambridge on the train. Balloons feature quite prominently in the Babolin show so they had with them a tank of helium. Despite having the tank when they travelled the five and a half hours up to Edinburgh and having successfully completed four hours of the journey back down, problems suddenly occurred when changing at Peterborough.
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