Hester Goodman - Review
It doesn’t matter what you’re into, if someone was going to come on and take us into a world of Mary Poppins, you’d hang around just out of curiosity, and what a bizarre thing it is. Whether because it’s a bit crap but done well, or excellent, but done badly, is an entirely separate debate as it’s enough to just say you’ve seen it.
It’s pretty damn surreal to be entertained by a bird dressed as Julie Andrews’ most sexy character. (OK, I’m admitting more than I intended here, but I make no excuses – I had a thing about her as a kid) walking on stage pretending to be blown about in the wind while riding her brolly. She’s complete with rosy cheeks, bottomless carpet bag, sweet temperament and probably doesn’t smell of barley water either.
She’s a marionette type puppet, almost clockwork and robotic with her actions and miming as she mouths the snippets of dialogue and songs that are strung together in a seemingly random arrangement but so that this Mary Poppins can appear filthy and warped.
‘A Spoonful Of Sugar’ helps the medicine go down, but in Hester’s case, the medicine is 40% proof and slugged straight from the bottle. Switching from pose to pose (Poppins Voguing), she goes from ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius’ to ‘Feed The Birds’ where she inspirationally strokes a plastic pigeon and still ends up being the one that flies away.
Curious but cute.
Paul Mills
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