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Article: THEATRE The Red Balloon, Olivier, RNT
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1996
- Author:
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Small children can be bracingly heartless. There was I,
wrestling with a lump in my throat as a mysterious red balloon -
which had palled up with Pascal, a lonely little Parisian boy - is
murdered by the pack of school bullies and slowly deflates before
his stricken gaze. Behind me, though, a young lad was wrestling
with a sense of grievance. "But it hasn't gone bang!" he exclaimed
in an aggrieved, loud whisper. He'd had preferred a bang for his
buck rather than all this sentiment. Do we believe in fairies? No,
we don't: pull her wings off.
Of course, the above spectacle is itself a reminder of the
cruelty children are capable of. Watching Anthony Clark's musical
stage version of Albert ...
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