DNA
are proud to present ‘Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales’
with an exciting mix of puppets, storytelling, percussion and DNA’s
trademark blend of live performance and audience participation.
Thurtinkle is a wise old gnome with a big nose, a big heart and
a big appetite for stories! He has traveled all over the world and
through time and space sniffing out the best tales of them all.
Find out why Thurtinkle loves his beautiful big nose in ‘The
Big Noses’, try to help Katy make her mind up in ‘Katy
Make-Sure’, laugh at the crazy antics of the two greedy robbers
in ‘The Glass Cupboard’ and find out what happens when
you’re never satisfied in ‘The Corn Dolly’.
With his witty low-key style, author Terry Jones addresses important
themes for children such as inclusion and diversity, environmentalism,
self-esteem and consumerism.
"A show that was enjoyed by both the children and the
parents in the audience, it is heartening to think this kind of
theatre is still being created and taken around the country."
Yorkshire Post
DNA Puppetry and Visual Theatre Company is a team of highly talented
producers of creative learning for children. With creative visual
theatre through puppetry at the heart of all their work, this internationally
touring performance company has been promoting creative play and
learning since 1994.
REVIEW
DYNAMIC NEW PUPPET SHOW BOUND TO THRILL THE WHOLE
FAMILY
YORKSHIRE POST FRIDAY MARCH 20 2009
Barnsley Civic Theatre
Dan Chaik
The programme states that the show is for ages four to ten, so you
feel a little self conscious going into a performance such as this
without a child in tow. Fortunately the programme also tells you that
the stories which provide the inspiration for the show are from Terry
Jones, he of Monty Pythonfame.
Perhaps a childlike view of the world, in the sense that the Pythons
were childlike, is all that is actually needed to enjoy this production
from touring puppet theatre company Dynamic New Animation (DNA) anyone
with an imagination will enjoy this gentle, subversive, funny show.
Taking the 1981 book Fairy Tales by Jones as a basis, the puppeteer
and artistic director of DNA Adam Bennett creates an enchanting little
show. Bennett is the man, literally, behind the puppet Thurtinkle,
who tells the sometimes dark and constantly amusing stories from Jones’s
book. While Thurtinkle is an impressive puppet and an amusing character,
presenter Shakera Louise Ahad, pictured, provides a vital link between
the puppet and the audience. Clearly thinking on her feet in a show
that can only be as rehearsed as far as an audience of young children
will allow, she is an engaging presence who helps the audience connect
with the puppet and the stories he tells. It is impressive feat to
act, tell stories, and essentially carry out crowd control all at
once, but she carries it off with wit. A show that was enjoyed by
both the children and the parents in the audience, it is heartening
to think this kind of theatre is still being created and taken around
the country.
DNA
are proud to present ‘Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales’
with an exciting mix of puppets, storytelling, percussion and DNA’s
trademark blend of live performance and audience participation.
