Modern fairy tale has young audience spellbound

The Girl with the Incredibly Long Hair, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

WHILE grey skies and rain has made the second week of the Easter holidays less than fun for children, many were saved by an hour of magic in the Weston Studio at Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre.

The lucky ones at the opening performance of The Girl with the Incredibly Long Hair were treated to an inspired production by the Cardiffbased We Made This Company.

From the moment the audience arrived it was clear that we were in for something a little different. Instead of being directed to numbered seats, we were ushered to cushions and low benches surrounding the stage, and so youngsters and their mums and dads were immediately a part of the action. whose pretend-witch is as scary as it

The story led into the heart of the gets. forest with background sound effects of There’s lots of fun to be had, humour birds and bees as well as hopping and token acknowledgement to our age rabbits, plants, ponds and fruit trees. of Google and YouTube. There’s enough

Inspired by the story of Rapunzel, this audience participation to delight the is a modern fairy tale for our times. bold, but not so much so as to upset the Roanna Lewis plays the part of Rapunzel shy. as a more emancipated feminist than The young audience were spellbound damsel in distress; she is more from start to finish, including a toddler engrossed in her books and making it who had wandered centre stage before into the Guinness Book of Records than the start of the show to try and pilfer a bagging a prince. cuddly rabbit prop.

Connor Allen is a gallant but ■ The Girl with the Incredibly Long somewhat accident-prone Prince Hair is at the Wales Millennium Centre Charming, and Rebecca Killick, as from until Sunday, April, 15. Suitable Rapunzel’s mam, is an endearing for ages four and up. nature-loving gardener and bee keeper, ■ Sally James

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