We Like It Plain from rehearsals
Magic Spaghetti
Written & Directed by Virginia Radcliffe
Strega Nona is renowned for her magic remedies but raises eyebrows with her 'fancy' cooking. Her magic pot produces endless spaghetti, if you know the words, but will only stop if you remember to blow three kisses.
Machiavellian mayor MacBerto has succeeded in pursuading people to stop growing food, stop cooking food and only buy his MacBerto's Pies. His son, Tony, only eats plain spaghetti and one day spies Strega Nona activating her magic spaghetti pot. When Strega Nona leaves her home Tony seizes his chance and activates the pot in front of the townsfolk. But he didn't see Strega Nona blow the three kisses and he soon discovers that he can't stop the pot..........!
Actors: Johnny Austin, Mary Gapinski, Sean Hay, Ashley Smith, Nicky McCabe
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Reviews
This is a great show for kids and a fantastic way to make healthy food cool, which will please parents to no end. The performances are big and bright and alone could entertain children for hours (It did for me!). Along with this are songs and jokes a plenty. I strongly advise parents to take their children to see this. Theyll love it.. and so will you.
THE EDINBURGH GUIDE
Larger than life characters, teamed with a wicked sense of humour, keep this slick show rolling along, played out with such energy that the audience cant help but get caught up in it. The production has a life beyond its allotted length, with songs and ideas that stick in your head for weeks afterwards.
THE LIST
Jamie Oliver would surely consider Licketyspit on the side of the angels as far as children and their eating habits are concerned. For Magic Spaghetti, the company's ambitious new site specific show cheerfully celebrates the benefits of ditching automatic yeuch! responses and trying new things.
Charm and whimsicality, as well as genial performances and daft humour, soon whet young audiences appetites.
THE HERALD
Licketyspit have concocted a modern-day fairy tale that sells its young audience on the merits of fresh, flavoursome food enlivened by songs, catchphrases, movement and just a touch of slapstick.
THE SCOTSMAN
Licketyspit which was launched only one year ago has already established that it has a creative spark There is much to admire in Magic Spaghetti, a musical inspired by a Calabrian folk tale and set in the composite country of Scotaly.Comic characters such as the cross-dressed Mrs Frilliness will enthral young children.
Licketyspit has its finger so firmly on the public pulse it almost cuts off the circulation. Magic Spaghetti not only does for pasta what Delia Smith did for the boiled egg, but it is also a hymn to healthy eating, served up with a welcome dose of be-flagged Italian sunshine before a back drop of a sun drenched Tuscan town, by a lively and talented quartet of actors.
TES
Production Designed by Alice Wilson
Costume Designer Iona Calum
Lighting from Maria Bechelaani
Music Paddy Cuneen & Virginia Radcliffe
Production MD Tim Brinkhurst & Mary MacMaster
For our 2005 promenade version of Magic Spaghetti.
