The Phantom Tollbooth
Imagine a secret world hidden inside of a magical tollbooth. Two kings, Azaz and The Math Magician are constantly at war and chaos terrorizes their citizens of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, all because they can’t decide whether numbers are more important than words, or if words are more important than numbers. Their sisters Rhyme and Reason tell the two brothers that words and numbers are both of equal value, but they don’t listen to their sisters and banish the two from the kingdom. Milo a lazy boy that does nothing useful with his time enters the tollbooth that magically appears at the foot of his bed which gets him thrown into the biggest adventure of his life. The Phantom Tollbooth was a great play put on by amature actors from Bert Bowes School and I’ll be criticizing its Sets, Costumes, and Highlights.
The sets were great. The transitions were extremely fast so we didn’t have to wait a long time before the next scene started and the stage crew didn’t make too much noise while they were setting up new equipment on stage. There were a few incidents where someone accidentally left something on the stage from a previous set, but it wasn’t really a big deal, and didn’t ruin the play. With such a little budget the cast did a great job at creating …show more content…
The pillows that they carried along grey that they wore mixed with them slouching over and mumbling while they talked added a great effect making them seem lazy, weak, sad, and negative. The cast was really creative when making the costumes, for an example they didn’t have an eye dropper for one of the costumes so they used a turkey baster instead, and they did an awesome job when it came to costume details. I really liked how the car had had a steering wheel, and the dog Tock had a bone to chew on which was a really funny highlight to the
Imagine a secret world hidden inside of a magical tollbooth. Two kings, Azaz and The Math Magician are constantly at war and chaos terrorizes their citizens of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, all because they can’t decide whether numbers are more important than words, or if words are more important than numbers. Their sisters Rhyme and Reason tell the two brothers that words and numbers are both of equal value, but they don’t listen to their sisters and banish the two from the kingdom. Milo a lazy boy that does nothing useful with his time enters the tollbooth that magically appears at the foot of his bed which gets him thrown into the biggest adventure of his life. The Phantom Tollbooth was a great play put on by amature actors from Bert Bowes School and I’ll be criticizing its Sets, Costumes, and Highlights.
The sets were great. The transitions were extremely fast so we didn’t have to wait a long time before the next scene started and the stage crew didn’t make too much noise while they were setting up new equipment on stage. There were a few incidents where someone accidentally left something on the stage from a previous set, but it wasn’t really a big deal, and didn’t ruin the play. With such a little budget the cast did a great job at creating …show more content…
The pillows that they carried along grey that they wore mixed with them slouching over and mumbling while they talked added a great effect making them seem lazy, weak, sad, and negative. The cast was really creative when making the costumes, for an example they didn’t have an eye dropper for one of the costumes so they used a turkey baster instead, and they did an awesome job when it came to costume details. I really liked how the car had had a steering wheel, and the dog Tock had a bone to chew on which was a really funny highlight to the