ACTOR ON A BOX: THE LUCK CHILD
ACTOR ON A BOX: THE LUCK CHILD, Richard Wherrett Studio, Sydney Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, 6-15 July 2012.
Reviewed by FELICITY DAYHEW, age 8, in her own words.
The actor in the play was David Collins who is one of the Umbilical Brothers. He played all of the parts. The wizard, the king, the circus owner, Mr Biggins (who was an ape), the Ferryman, the three-headed dog and I think there are a lot more. He played all of the parts well and it made us laugh a lot.
The play was about a wizard who lived in the dungeons of a king's palace and the king wanted to know his future as he just had a new daughter. So the king wanted to know who she would marry. The wizard finds out that the king gets overthrown by the Luck Child (the seventh child of the seventh child) which the wizard didn't know until he calculated it.
Then the wizard knew that the king would be very angry so he set out and tried to find the Luck Child first. Along the journey he has to change into sixteen different characters which would be quite hard and he does this really well like when he turns from Mr Biggins (the ape) into the king because they're very different.
It has a happy ending and a moral to the story which is everyone can be lucky.
"You can be a Luck Child, I can be a luck child, oo oo oo oo oo oo" (Mr Biggins singing).
