Dramadillo’s guide to life

Press, 7 October 1987, Page 22

Dramadillo’s guide to life

Take six innovative performers fresh from overseas successes. Add bizarre box people, flying pterodactyls and a singing nose and you have got “Dramadillo’s Guide to Life.” At least that is what the New Zeland theatre group promises for Its latest production. “Guide to Life” began

as an idea. Workshopping i over six weeks by the I seven-strong group pro- > duced characters, visual images, costumes and props to create the hour i and a half show that the group will bring to Christchurch on October 16 and ; 17. The production takes four characters, Jemima, Mary Smith, Raewyn, and a young man named Iso-

bet on a bizarre bus tour. There is no driver or guide, only a guidebook leading each character in turn into scenes which explore his or her own lives and personalities. Dramadillo took the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it got good reviews and large audiences. The group’s Christ-

church performance begins an eixht-centre tour. - uramaauio wbs khtmci five yean ago by Juliet Monaghan and Nick Blake. It has seven memben now, from differing performance backgrounds, including mainstream theatre and groups such as Red Mole and Stalker Stilt Theatre. The performers are David Clarkson, John

pro s ctl ßjs Joyce; ■ NidTaake demgned the masks and nunoets amt Alison Wan theroetume*. The oririMi music is by form at the James Hay Theatre. . ■ . ■ ■ - ■ ■ • . ■