Christmas Quangle Wangle
By Virginia Radcliffe
Quangle Wangle is a hilarious celebration of Edward Lear's nonsense poetry. Stella and Stan are waiting for Christmas. They find a mysterious parcel, which leads them to discover Quangle Wangle alone on his Crumpety Tree. A mass of strange visitors arrive and change his life forever - the Golden Grouse, the Orient Calf, Mr & Mrs Canary...then they sail to the land where the Jumblies live, to dance by the light of the Mulberry Moon.
Christmas Quangle Wangle was adapted from the 2003 production for the Wee Stories Early Years Project.
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Reviews
...a merry, madcap Christmas presentation for younger children.
THE HERALD
Quangle Wangle...takes the best absurdest elements of children's fiction, captures its audience's fiery imagination and having kindled them with a handful of limericks, ignites them with a pyrotechnic telling of Lear's poems.
THE STAGE
...deceptively simple but involving...
..."it's nonsense, but it's good," conclude Stella and Stan. Even this hardened critic, whom the Dong with the Liminous Nose is gradually receding memory, had to agree.
THE METRO
...intelligent and well constructed...Virginia Radcliffe's vividly scripted concoction of such weird characters as the Dong with the Luminous Nose, the Jumblies and the Quangle Wangle in his Crumpety Tree deserves praise for speaking on a child's level with quite touching eloquence. Children of any vantage will undoubtedly find themselves carried along in the seasonal magic of it all.
THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
Over recent years Scotland has developed an enviable number of world class theatre companies dedicated to creating work for children. The latest to join the ranks is Licketyspit.
THE GUARDIAN
Like Molly Whuppie and Wee Witches before it, Quangle Wangle mixes music, action songs and silliness with genuine theatrical skill. Changing characters in the blink of an eye, the two performers do justice to Lear's incredible imagination...
Virginia Radcliffe's colourful interpritation of the bizarre creatures, captures the imagination of young and old alike...
The fusion of versatile costumes, American crooners, Bollywood and Scottish folk music, make this a wonderful introduction to theatre for young children.
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