One Small Step
So it might give you memories of
Neil Armstrong’s One Small Step for man, one giant leap for mankind and
this rings true in the highly acclaimed One Small Step. It has tasted
immense success at the Ediburgh Fringe Festival last year and is now
touring Dubai and Singapore with a stopver in Sri Lanka on the 26th to
the 30th of March 2010.
One Small Step is a new play written by David Hastings and produced
by Oxford Playhouse where it thrilled five-star reviews and thrilled
audiences at the Fringe Festival.
 Rocket launches, satellites, tremendous G-forces, orbits around the
Earth and those breathtaking first steps, all are recreated on stage in
Oxford Playhouse’s production of One Small Step.
This out-of-the-world production, which won rave reviews at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, tells the story of the Space Race in just 60
minutes, using two actors, a couple of buckets, a lamp or two, a heap of
cardboard boxes and a giant leap of the imagination. It’s inventive,
hilarious and moving, a fitting tribute to the generation of men and
women who devoted their lives to the dream of space travel.
It is the perfect play for the next generation (ages 7 and above) of
scientists, engineers and explorers (and their families) everywhere!
Encapsulating the race between the United States and the Soviet Union
to send the first man to the moon, One Small Step is an eccentric, funny
and surprisingly moving piece of visual theatre. Magically conjuring
dozens of characters with the aid of simple household objects, as well
as creating the famous Apollo, Gemini and Sputnik capsules from buckets,
lamps and cardboard boxes, the play manages to capture the imagination
of all ages.
After 6 long years, the British Council will present an international
theatre production in Jaffna since the end of the civil war which will
go on board on March 26 at the St. John’s College Hall.
In Colombo, the Namel Malini Punchi Theatre will see the play
mesmerising audiences on March 29.
So check your oxygen, adjust your spacesuit and buckle up. It will be
a fast, furious and really rather funny play, the ignition sequence has
begun.
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