Audience Feedback for GULLIVER

Ceri Legg on 15/12/2009

Audience comments:

The Crossing at St Pauls

So far… half time… it has been amusing and professional.

A really well produced play, very imaginative, good set and lighting – really the evening!

I hadn’t appreciated that Swift is the father of Becket! Pathos, politics, laugher, tears – beautiful ensemble playing. Deserves a West End run (The Jerome K Jerome Society, Walsall).

Sherman – Friday

We love Brendan Charleson.

Great use of props, settings, music and top actors.

I like the character bits but doctor bits are a bit…

A lovely, magical yet moving show – thank you.

Sherman – Saturday

I really enjoyed it and I would love to see it again.

Congratulations, brilliantly done – imaginative and jovial.

A very enjoyable and thought provoking play – great evening.

A very fine piece – well done – golly gosh – A HIT!

Zany. Good. Deserved bigger audiences. Great set and music. Masks effective..

The best theatre I’ve ever seen – BRILLIANT

Wonderful I have to come to see it again – there was so much in it.

Superb stuff – well done everyone.

V.Good. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Twas a pleasure from start to finish.





Bishop Greaves Theatre, Lincoln

Some of the best drama I have ever seen has been 4-handers in village halls! I have been living in Scotland and saw no touring companies – great to have the opportunity to see your wonderful company – exquisite!

Brilliant ‘tour de force’. Matrix Markers – loved the goggles.
Gulliver aka Mandleson, Prof Freud is interested in analysing Swift for a modest fee! – loved the show!

Otley Courthouse

Absolutely brilliant! Very clever adaptation and excellent acting, design etc.

Excellent – very impressed! Loving it so far (interval). Gulliver is fantastic!

I like the Lilliput language

Wonderfully imaginative

Beautifully played and staged. Brought it into contemporary relevance whilst keeping true to the original – layered and complex – very enjoyable!

Imaginative, witty, moving and thought provoking! Now I WILL read Gulliver’s Travels!

Inspiring

Hemsworth

An excellent show! Thank you!

Ammanford Miners’ Theatre

Excellent performance! Sorry there were so few of us – try Llandeilo next time.

Thank you so much for a wonderful performance.

The Grange – Newnham

Excellent performance! Very professional! Great props! Ideas – puppets etc.

Thank you for your great performance. I really enjoyed the part about the travels. It was a fantastic play and I wish you good luck. Thanks you

Fact and fiction! You’ve really left me wondering. Very well written, wonderfully acted and very effectively performed. You’ve certainly honoured Jonathan Swift. Well done.

Fascinating! Brilliant scenario! Superb use of the stage setting. Amazing actors. More than five stars!! Thank you very much for a wonderful evening.

The Dragon Theatre

Very imaginative and enjoyable.

Gripping!

I enjoy everything that Hijinx do – I wish we could get more people here.

Excellent performance – thank you!

What a company! Brill! (Sorry about Barmouth)

A wonderful play and an excellent performance. I feel as if I understand Gulliver’s Travels much better now! (LJ – British Columbia)

A great show – I loved every minute!

Neuadd Dwyfor

Excellent! Well done!

Ardderchog unwaith eto

What a clever production – full of original ideas and performed with so much energy, despite the small audience – thank you!

Amazing…. Brilliant!

Twm O’r Nant
Fab
Brill Cast
Excellently produced and acted
Excellent
Amazing, brilliant play
I really like it and it’s only half time!
Good
Cool, but hard to understand (age 12)
Scary stuff! (age 6)
Excellent production production, amazing choreography – well done.

Great to see the play! Jane’s lights as always are ace! Look forward to the next production.

Absolutely fantastic. Brilliant.

Theatr Fach

Hijinx – you truly are the real ‘magic of theatre’

Wonderful actors – so much energy – a fab evening. Thank you – have a smashing tour

The Riverfront

Great use of movement – the use of costumes and set were massively creative. Really felt as if I was there. Bravo!

Excellent –really enjoyed it.

Fantastic – so imaginative and thought provoking. It might make me read Swift!

Well written, well acted and a really great performance – loved it from start to finish.

A wonderful, imaginative, inspiring interpretation – very cleverly presented.

Lacerating, timely, timeless, restrained in Swiftian-terms, high praise for high, subtlee professionalism. Can it be that a cast of four encapsulated the human condition in two short hours – no… pure fiction! High regards.

Great, makes me want to read the book.

We have seen many of your shows and they are always outstanding. This evening’s performance was truly amazing and I would highly recommend any of your productions.

Very good – makes me want to find out more about Swift. Contemporary and period. Well done!

Hijinx on top form! – Well done everyone – well written and I learnt a lot!

Victoria Hall

Superbly acted, great scenery, props, outfits. Loved it! Sorry there was only 30 in the audience.

Fantastic performance – very talented. It is sad so few of us were here to appreciated what you offered. Thank You!

Brilliant performance – thought provoking – I must find out more about Jonathan Swift.

Gillingham School

Very enjoyable and cleverly done!

Enlightening, fun and clever – thank you.

Really funny, amazing acting.

Excellent performances and very original – thanks

Brilliant – really enjoyed it.

Very inspirational - I hope to see some more of your work in the future.

Utterly wonderful production. I hope to see more of you soon. Best of luck with all you do.

Excellent production, thanks.

Amazing performance and production

A beautiful combination of naturalism and Brechtian idea. I loved the Laputian section. Best Wishes.

Really, really excellent performance and production

Loved the performance – very funny! Please come again.

Wowaweewo – I love, love, LOVED it… brilliant, come back soon.

Very dynamic – I loved the use of shadows!

Totally spellbinding – thank you sooooo much.

Not always comfortable reminder of who we may choose to be as human beings – the tension between absurdity and enlightenment really came through.

I love the way Gulliver and Swift were linked in movement. It was hypnotic – acting strong and so moving.

A terrific evening from a very professional company – thank you.



Halstock Village Hall

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Most enjoyable – better than the RSC!

Superb from start to finish.

One of the best Hijinx – loved it!

Brilliant!

Fantastic – really good!

Absolutely brilliant – I was spellbound throughout and moved to tears – the final scene – thank you very much.

Shillingstone

Brilliant, contemporary, prowerful – it made me cry!

Enjoyed the Harlequin style which was used.

You were excellent. The combination of present now and the 18th Century was so impressive. I hope your motivation will only increase! Thank you.

Loved the goggles!

Superb – it sent me home to read Gulliver’s Travels.

Well done – brilliant!

Brilliant!

Excellent writing and performance.

An inspiring, remarkable performance by all the cast and backstage crew. It has been an absolute delight to see this and it will stay in my mind for a long time – well done.



Monmouth

A superb production from every angle. Thank you for first class entertainment.

A fantastic imaginative production – so many clever ideas – highly recommended.

What a brilliant show – I am sure the stage was hard, but at no time did the actors hesitate with leaping around! Well done.

The Torch Theatre

REALLY enjoyed it! Totally lost in the experience, made very believable by excellent acting – thank you!

First rate. The rest of the audience that weren’t here don’t know what they missed. Many thanks.

Very good play, a very well designed stagecraft and excellent acting – thanks a lot.

A wonderful, original play. We thoroughly enjoyed it all.

I enjoyed.

A very enjoyable evening – thank you.

WOW! I loved everything about it. Really engaging, magical and moving. Well done.

Ystradgynlais

Brilliant – diolch yn fawr!

A tour de force – many congratulations from one of your Liliputian audience members who you made feel like a giant Gulliver!

Theatr Powys

Fantastic show – enjoyed every minute.

What a great evening, fantastic actin, lovely directing and a script of real art and feeling. Thanks.

Great entertainment, superb acting, terrific writing, lovely show all round – theatre at its best.

A fantastic production! Beautiful set, excellent performances and a satisfying story – a great evening – thank you.

Llanbedr

Fantastic!

So very relevant of today. Loved the horse!

Excellent- really enjoyable.

Very entertaining – excellent!

Always a surprise and excitement! Your take on this was so relevant and magical – thanks!

As usual – an amazing production – look forward to your next visit.

Excellent – thoroughly enjoyed by five of us!

As always – in total awe of such talent.

The Pound

Brilliant first half ….

…. And second – marvellous!!

Heron Theatre

Well done! Very clever production, well performed and great effects!

Absolutely BRILLIANT!

One of the best theatrical experiences – EVER! Thank you!

Brilliant – from beginning to end!

Sensational! Will certainly look for your work again!

Very clever – a superb production – thank you.

Excellence of acting and production surpassed only by the quality of writing. Thank you for coming to the Heron.

Heron (day two)

Ingenious and well presented. The complexity of the story is difficult if one has not read the book perhaps. A wonderfully imaginative project – very well realised.

Wonderful acting and great discipline – congratulations

Excellent performance

Brilliant!

Inventive; absorbing; engaging

A tremendous theatrical event that we are unlikely to better this season Sorray about the house.

Arad Goch

Beautifully topical, entertaining and moving. Thank you.

I was enraptured, this is first class theatre. I hope you tour it again to that more people will see it. Thank you for such generous performances.

Melville Theatre

Fantastic!

Excellent performance

Really great – long time since I’ve seen such a good play

Excellent – great show

Absolutely brilliant – great play, so imaginative and superbly acted – thank you.

Very good and me and friends loved the immortals. Thanks.

Really good play – loved all the jokes – Thanks!

The greatest play of any I’ve ever watched.

Very good – loved it!

The best play I have seen for many years. Brilliantly acted, thought provoking and very much about us now. Many, many thanks

Ledbury

Absolutely magical.

Brilliant concept

Wish more people had come to enjoy this splendid performance.

Ledbury folk; you don’t know what you missed – so very good.

Excellent – well done.

Chrysalis

An excellent production – thank you (very imaginative and ‘scaringly real!’)

Hijinx Rocks – great!

Next show bring it on!

Everlasting amusement! Thank you!

WMC

It was lovely!

Fab – best thing I’ve seen in ages. Well done Zoe, James and all the rest!

Absolutely fabulous!

Funny and gripping and sad

Superb, well done zoe

Absolutely brilliant – Director and cast outstanding

Fantastic! I really enjoyed it!

Absolutely brilliant!

As above – brilliant!

Give me a call - Steven Spielberg!!

Even better second time around

Excellent

Absolutely bloody brilliant! A must-see – go see it now!

Juanes was the best, but Carlos Vives hit the sky!

The best Hijinx play I’ve seen so far – and they’ve all been good!! This should be seen in London! – Absolutely brilliant!!

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