 One Small Step
 Just ‘One Small Step’ is all it
takes the highly acclaimed drama that was revealed to an unsuspecting
audience for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ‘One Small
Step’ will be in Sri Lanka by the end of this month. Touring Singapore
and Dubai at the moment, the crew and cast of ‘One Small Step’ will soon
perform at the Punchi Theatre and for the first time, at the St. John’s
College in Jaffna.
There have been rave reviews of the dramatic production and Sri
Lankans will be treated to an English production like no other.
According to the UK Telegraph, David Hastings’s ‘One Small Step’
(Assembly Rooms) recounts the history of the first moon landing, as told
by two geeks (Robin Hemmings and Oliver Hollis) in a room full of junk.
Telegraph reporter Sarah Crompton said that they put pillows on their
heads to play Russian cosmonauts and build space rockets out of
cardboard boxes, buckets and a lampshade.
A man with a silver ball in his hand becomes Armstrong guiding the
lunar module Eagle on to the moon’s surface. To her verdict, the show
captures both the wonder and the terror of space exploration with a
Boy’s Own enthusiasm tempered by poignancy and awe. It shows how the
race between the United States and the Soviet Union to send the first
man to the moon went haywired with crazy but possible ideas.
The critics say that ‘One Small Step’ is an eccentric, funny and
surprisingly moving piece of visual theatre that magically conjures
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.
It will be one of the best things you’ll ever see!
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