Travelmole review: Yorkshire.com-sponsored The Railway Children
Tuesday, 01 Dec, 2010
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There’s nothing Travelmole likes more than a good weep at a top London show and The Railway Children, sponsored by Yorskhire Tourism, certainly delivered.
The play is staged at a specially constructed theatre at the former Eurostar terminal at London Waterloo, allowing a real steam train to steal the show when it chuffs into centre stage.
The junior section of the Mole dynasty sat in silent awe (along with every other child and adult at the show) all the way through E Nesbit’s classic tale of the children at the Three Chimneys. And considering the youngest is three, that’s some show.
From the minute the three actors Sarah Quintrell (Bobby), Louisa Clein (Phyllis) and Nicholas Bishop (Peter) took to the stage, no child stirred and didn’t seem to have any problem with the fact that grown adults were taking the part of the Victorian children.
Railway-Children courtesy-of-AKA.
But this isn’t just a show for the little ones. Most people having seen the Jenny Agutter classic 1970s film of the book, adults seemed just as enchanted to hear the story of how Nesbit’s protagonists coped with life after London following their father’s arrest for spying.
In fact, Mole thinks it saw more grown-ups waving red flags in the audience during the scene where the children stop the train to avoid an accident.
And when Bobby utters those final words “My daddy!” as her father walks up the platform in the dying moments of the show, there was not a dry eye in the house.
Top marks to Yorkshire.com for partnering such a brilliant event. Go see it quickly before it ends on January 2.
For more information, go to www.yorkshire.com/railwaychildren
by Dinah Hatch
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