have said
"...this play ... takes the best absurdist 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 four of Lear's poems..." (THE STAGE)
"Licketyspit specialise in Early Years Entertainment and as such know their target audience inside out.
"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, ensuring this is a fun, intelligent introduction to narrative theatre." (LIST)
"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 vintage will undoubtedly find themselves carried along in the seasonal magic of it all." EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
"...a merry, madcap Christmas presentation for younger children." (HERALD)
"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." (GUARDIAN Preview)
"Putting flesh paint and performance on the sublime silliness of Lear's nonsense poems is ... an act of creative defiance. Lindow's design cleverly leaves room for the children's wonder and imagination. Music teachers will warm to the way Brinkhurst can slowly turn a simple song into an unobtrusive lesson in harmony, counterpoint, tempo, and rhythm..." (TES SCOTLAND)
"...deceptively simple but involving.
" 'it’s nonsense, but it’s good’, conclude Stella and Stan. Even this hardened critic, for whom the Dong with the Luminous Nose is a gradually receding memory, had to agree." (METRO)
Adapted from the 2003 production for the Wee Stories Early Years Project.