Peppa Pig’s Surprise
Theatre Royal
It’s a lovely day and Peppa is playing outside with her friends. Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig have got a surprise for her and George – they can’t guess what it is, can you? Peppa Pig, George and their friends are back in this brand new live stage show, Peppa Pig’s Surprise.
Emma Grace Arends is Daisy our guide into the world of Peppa is full of bubbly energy from the off and kept us all interested and included in the show, she never flags and I was impressed by her relentless full beam smile. Must be hard keeping that up for two shows a day, five days a week.
The rest of the cast are excellent puppeteers and recreate the iconic voices of the characters they are playing, the puppets themselves are great, Peppa and her friends are human sized, Mummy and Daddy bigger and it keeps everything in a child sized perspective and familiar to younger audience members who are used to screens.
All in all you know what you’re getting with Peppa and this is a fun show which catches and keeps the attention of the youngest members of the audience while still giving them plenty of fun, thrills and new experiences. The songs are fun (and more importantly short) with plenty of shouting out, silly simple audience participation and few on stage tricks to make folk laugh.
The show takes the format of many short stories that build up into the longer narrative so nothing too complex or taxing and with a fun ultra violet light and puppet show half way through that had us all ohhhing and ahhhing with delight. My young companion Hadley (3) was delighted by the neon glowing jellyfish dance and daft crab dance. There’s a lovely bed time story with the cheeky Red Monkey and Mr Potatoe pays a visit at the end to help us set a new world record for his new dance. All gloriously silly and fun.
Greta fun and certainly worth a trip out on a wet half term afternoon and a wonderful way to introduce kids to the Theatre.
Plays until June 3
Theatre Royal
Brighton
New Road
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