Is the home going to develop rooster legs and run throughout the stage? It’s not the central dramatic query of this stage adaptation of Sophie Anderson’s extremely garlanded YA novel, nevertheless it’s what most audiences will marvel.
Luckily, there's a lot else to distract whereas that's contemplated in a bit full of enjoyable, exuberant musical numbers, amusingly irreverent performances and creative theatricality.
The novel was impressed by people tales Anderson was advised by her Prussian grandmother and Les Enfants Terribles is the right firm for this model. Led by adapter and co-director Oliver Lansley, the corporate’s idiosyncratic fashion is apt for the story’s milieu.
Marinka lives along with her grandmother, Baba, a yaga; somebody who guards the gate between the dwelling and the lifeless and guides the just lately departed to the opposite aspect. The at all times amusing Lisa Howard provides one other spectacular comedian flip to her CV as Marinka’s grandmother amid a younger solid who preserve comedic tempo with spectacular ease. David Fallon as a younger Geordie who falls for Marinka is especially humorous and Eve De Leon Allen as Marinka has baggage of likability.
The manufacturing design, Día de los Muertos-chic, isn’t scared to mash kinds collectively, giving us lo-fi (although extremely creative) puppetry alongside projection and good quaint storytelling.
The piece is overlong, with an excessive amount of story and a operating time that pushes in direction of three hours, absolutely a problem to the target market’s consideration span. It's at its finest when it chooses irreverence over sincerity, though it's significantly robust when portraying the beautiful awkwardness of teenage life.
And sure, the home grows rooster legs.
The Home With Rooster Legs is at House, Manchester, till 23 April.
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