VIKING 2005 - COMMENTS FROM PROMOTERS

Belinda Farrel – essex on tour, Rural Touring Scheme
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I thought it was an enormously successful evening. The writing was really clever and there was a perfect mix of slapstick and humour with a touch of pathos. The performers were consummate and had just the right mix of self deprecation and established a real rapport with the audience who felt comfortable enough to join in when appropriate. The audience was ‘invited’ into the show and it felt like a really special evening! It really cheered us all up!

Kate Lawrence – Arts in Camb, Rural Touring Scheme
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One of the best performances I’ve seen in a long time with both artistic depth and style + common appeal. Suitable for the sort of non arts attenders who turn up at village halls + more sophisticated audience. Suitable for all ages. Clever. Funny. Well paced. Good audience interaction. Theatrically sophisticated, but intrinsically simple. Good use of puppetry techniques. Well designed for a non arts space with very modest technical demands and self sufficient. High quality and appropriate. Well done!

David Agnew – The Met, Bury
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The show was perfect – very attractive to potential youth audiences.

Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
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Brilliant – Clever, funny and silly! What this kind of small-scale theatre should be!

Clive Wouters – Hurtwood House School
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Very successful and a good resource for A level theatre studies

Alsion Parry – Assembly Rooms, Presteigne
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Very funny, skillfull and clever.

Amanda Eela – Havant Arts Centre
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Loved the show – great fun for the audience. Good production values and very funny.

VIKING 2005 - COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

Please can you put me on your mailing list. Since watching 'I am a Viking' in December at Tower Arts in Winchester my pupils have been driving me nuts, they really want to see more of your work.
Susie Costa – Head of Drama at Noadswood School, Winchester

It ranks as one of the best, an epic, achieving something rarely experienced and to be especially treasured, a performance that took your audience into that parallel world where reality is suspended and theatre's magic weaves it's spell. Only very, very good actors and their supporting team who truly love and understand their art can do this. Thank you for a truly memorable evening.

Pure laughter medicine, I particularly enjoyed the long rambling speech of Odin about his love affair with Brunhilde (being German I understood every word!!!). Thank you very much, a great show!
Rodney Howard – Trowbridge

It was so rich and totally engaging. Please do more of this stuff it's great....
Ali Danda – Witham

VIKING 2004 - COMMENTS FROM PROMOTERS

David Calder, Bradon Forest School:
Outstanding high quality theatre. Many thanks for a wonderful evening.
How did the show go down with the audience?
Their reaction was, "When are they coming back? Save me a ticket!"

Alan Knight, Shaftesbury Arts Centre:
Excellent performances. Very involving and great fun.
Teddies Theatre Group, King Edward VI Grammer School, Louth:
Very impressive.

Kate Wilson, Chagford Village Hall, Devon (as part of Villages in Action Rural
Touring Scheme):
It was great! Witty, inventive and fun. Hugely enjoyable and hugely enjoyed.
How did the show go down with the audience?
They enjoyed very much and feedback afterwards was full of praise. Children adored the slapstick element.

Jill, Administrator Villages in Action Rural Touring Scheme:
Performers had excellent rapport with each other and the audience. The content
was hilarious and clever.
How did the show go down with the audience?
Excellent. All ages seriously entertained.

Sue Waterhouse, East Portlemouth Village Hall, Devon:
An hour or so of laughter that went by in a flash - exhausting for all of us but
very uplifting. Very expertly accomplished humour.
How did the show go down with the audience?
They loved it! Teenagers and children also enjoyed it - That's an achievment!

Simon Ripley, Crediton Arts Centre, Devon:
Excellent - I really enjoyed it and especially the spontaneous humour and interaction with the audience.

Judy Izatt, Compton Bassett Village Hall:
Superb set and props, brilliant play, fantastic performances by all the cast, who
gave their all.
How did the show go down with your audience?
The best reaction we have had. People congratulated us! Still a topic of conversation. It was Difficult to get some people to leave because the atmosphere was so happy.

Sarah Pym, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth:
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was very well directed. The company handled the audience brilliantly allowing for some interaction which the audience loved. It was funny, clever and a bit dark at times.
The performers are highly skilled and used their characters to full comic effect.
It made me laugh a lot.
How did the show go down with your audience?
They loved it

VIKING 2004 - COMMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

Very funny and entertaining
Excellent
It is not easy to persuade me to suspend disbelief. You did it, and I really enjoyed it!
Excellent – we really enjoyed it!
Year 11 Students, Adafield School, Hemel Hempstead

Thoroughly enjoyed 'I am a Viking', the cast has great rapport with the audience, the use of limited stage props was excellent and the dragon very effective.
Tracey Christiansen, Louth

Excellent show
Lin and Buz, Rattery Village

Fantastic show - laughed all the way through.
Lynette Blanchard, Backwell

You had me in stitches! Thanks a lot.
Roisin Brophy, Bath

Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed the play tonight!!! WE laughed ourselves silly.
Alison Farina, Bath