Heelie-go-Leerie!
By Virginia Radcliffe
Three people from different places. Three people holding up the same roof and needing to find the answer to a question...
We meet in the playground but where have we come from and where are we going?
To the moon? To the stars? And what will we find?
Dragons in the dustbin? Fishes on the roof?
Audience Comments
We have never been disappointed by Licketyspit, they do it again and again!
Utterly child centred theatre. The whole school from nursery to P7 were transfixed!
I loved the going to the moon bit. I loved doing the witch game. I loved watching the whole bit of the show.
I liked the dragon best of all and when they were pretending to go up in a rocket!
It was really excellent
Excellent! Dragon made good ending!
Reviews
Heelie-go-Leerie takes this most fundamental of activities and builds a storyline around it. Three children - Kaiser, Bella and Taz - lead hectic lives where there's never enough time in the day for play. So, individually, they sneak off to the local dumping ground and indulge in some 'me time' with a disused washing machine and an old tyre.
Energetic performances from all three cast members help drive this lively piece along. Minimal, but well-timed, audience participation allows the children to join in with rythmes or make like a chicken. And Virginia Radcliffe's charming script reminds us all that in the absence of PlayStations, the Wii and TV, chiildren will always find a way to entertain themselves, if we'd only let them.
THE LIST
Heelie-go-Leerie...offers a truly rich and original children's theatre experience...[there's] something tremendously courageous and important here, in the determination to create a show truly based on the rythm of children's imaginations at work, on sudden random flashes of inspiration, fragments of rhyme, and brief rushes of narrative invention. The cast work their way through it with terrific commitment and understanding, and the whole audience is charmed, touched and just slightly changed.
THE SCOTSMAN
Licketyspit has quickly earned a reputation as one of Scotland's most polished children's theatre companies. It's work is typically playful, athletic and imaginative. Those qualities are all present in its latest production. Heeelie-go-Leerie (Head Over Heels), a playful fantasy for a broad age range from three-and-up... entertaining and physically focused.
Mark Fisher, Hi Arts website
Licketyspit's play, about play, is a fantastic introduction to theatre for its target audience of three year-olds and over. The cast spend a friendly, but never too hearty, few minutes chatting to their audience...
The story itself is a delightful delve into the world of make-believe...
The use of rythems and story lines created in workshops with nursery children makes for a pleasing level of the surreal...director Virginia Radcliffe makes intelligent use of repetition and revelation to coax the audience along with the plot. It is a pleasure to witness this succeed and their are moments of real magic, particularly when the dragon takes flight.
THE STAGE
