The Review

Someone suggested that as we weren’t on stage on Wednesday the 18th January that we should take a busman’s holiday to see Robinson Crusoe. There was some interest and we ordered 9 tickets at £7.00 each, there being no concession available throughout the run of this show. The price did include a cup of tea/coffee and a biscuit. When we arrived at 7 for a 7.15 start, the tickets were on the door as requested, so we paid and went in to sit on C row. It was about 2/3rds full with no children in at all which I thought was unusual but maybe the price had something to do with this. We had been warned that on one night Davy Jones had frightened a couple of kids with his costume and makeup so the company had given a refund as the family left almost as soon as it started.

The show started on time and the chorus were in evidence straight away singing quite brightly and I think they were joined by everyone else from the side of the stage. It is only a small stage at Harvey Street and when everyone was on there wasn’t much room for dancing but the company seemed to manage ok. The storyline is quite simple but aren’t all Pantomimes. On the night we were there the prompt was worked quite hard but maybe the cast hadn’t looked at their

Robinson Crusoe – By Halliwell Cinema