Saturday, November 22, 2008

Eric Carle's favourites

This is it.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-up Chameleon by award-winning children's book illustrator and writer, Eric Carle, retold on stage in the dark.
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It's the very reason why we're on our way to the Victoria Theatre this morning. Yippee!!
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There were a lot of children with their parents at the theatre entrance when we arrived. To avoid being squeezed among the crowd, both of us headed straight into the theatre for our seats since the performance is due to start in about 5-10 minutes time.
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We got settled down, geared the dear son on a booster seat and the show started quite shortly. All the young audience were mesmerised. Their eyes were glued to the stage while they name out the animals, objects and colours!
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Dear son enjoyed himself for the whole 45 minutes. He was rather reluctant at first (perhaps being afraid of very loud and dark environment) but was engaged quite immediately like the other children after the show started. On the whole, it was a great and engaging performance by the Canadian puppeteers from Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia!
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For those who had missed the performance, Mummy had managed to take a little sneak from her mobile.......hehehe. A better video (promotional) may be found here: http://www.mermaidtheatre.ns.ca/repertory/vhc_video_med.shtml
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