A second large scale community show at the Theatre Workshop. A cast of over seventy, plus the company in this free and visual adaptation of CANDIDE. Giant puppets, mannequins, an exploding volcano, and a wild and theatrical trip round the world, accompanied by a ten piece band.
It is very obvious that Communicado have a great gift for drawing out people’s talents, and channelling their enthusiasm and energy; the whole thing bubbles with a truly exhilarating inventiveness, and a cheerful refusal to be daunted by the difficulties of staging, say, a civil war, an erupting volcano, or a convincing symbol of the futility of intellectual enquiry. So while the company work very hard to convince us that human inventiveness is merely destructive, that love is a sham, and that life in general really has no meaning at all, luckily they cheerfully contradict themselves with their imagination, their zest, and their infectiously joyful belief in the possibilities of the theatre..
Visually and musically the production is a brilliant display of bold imagination well served by inventive practicality……it really is a thoroughly stirring collaboration of talent, and outstanding advertisement for what can be achieved within a community show