Dear Bill and Gill
Thank you for visiting Forches Cross and performing your latest play Baby Iron Teeth.
I have seen all of your older plays and have been very imperessed, particulary the way you act out so many
characters with only the two of you.
I like the way you performed all of that fabulous tumbling. I also thought
the bit when you started humbing whilst slowly walking through the audience was very effective because it built up suspence,
furthermore it made me start geussing what was going to happen next.
You made me think hard about what you were
doing with the watering can and flower at the start but now it seems ovious that it symbolizes the theme behind the whole story
of new life growing and begining. This relates to a seed growing into a flower or a seed of imagination growing into a story.
Your idea of putting the green curtain over the tripod made a great garden effect, also it was effective how you placed the trellis
on top of the curtain and the objects on the trellis.
I particularly liked your idea of the lights making shadows on the wall
to make Baby Iron Teeth, mountain masher and Tree Puller Giant bigger. It also helped the auidience to imagine Ivan riding on his
horse.
Faster faster carry me faster
She's striding behind me
She's catching me up.
The rythmic way you said this verse helped me to picture Ivan galloping away on his horse.
The alliterations you used were superb,
Dig and delve deep down
dig and delve
dig and delve deep down
in the darkness of the earth
dig and delve deep down
in the darkness of the earth.
It was so clever how you just sloted in a simile.
My teeth are as savage as saws
as brutal as blades.
The use of language was brilliant in this play. It would be well worth watching you again. Your plays
seem to get better and better. I will be looking forward to your next play. I hope you have found my observations useful, perhaps
you could write back to me or send an email.
Jack Brown, Forches Cross Primary School