Full Beam Visual Theatre |
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| My Baby Just Cares For Me | |
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Thu 19th November to Fri 20th November at 8:00pm |
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Dad is growing old disgracefully – while fixing up the house. Catherine has a life to live and Mr. Right to find. The last thing either of them need is someone getting in the way…
As the baby boomers start collecting their free bus passes, how do we look after an older generation who are more used to dancing to The Rolling Stones than playing dominoes?
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| Tickets: £10, Concs£8 | Puppetry |
The Guardian
For anyone with experience of caring for a physically or mentally frail elderly person, this production from Full Beam Visual Theatre will be full of poignant observation. For everyone else, it is a lesson in why caring can be such an all-encompassing, draining way of life.
Yet early on at least, it is not as grim as that sounds, and is full of music, movement, film, dextrous puppetry and gentle laughs. A daughter cares for her father - a former musician who is declining fast, losing touch even with the past he remembers through music.
The key theme is how as a society we don't talk about caring for the elderly. The father and daughter don't ever discuss their situation; in his company, she never actually speaks, while her brother dodges calls and sends fancily wrapped sweets to his father instead.
This is an ambitious, multi-layered production squashed into a claustrophobic space, underlining the daughter's confined options. The puppets representing the father work brilliantly, starkly showing his decline, and the daughter's climbing and dancing over the set at night shrieks of frustrated hopes and desires.
Elisabeth Mahoney
The Rondo Theatre is supported by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
