The character of Storm Boy requires a range of emotional responses from its young actors. The pelicans, Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival, are operated by indigenous dancers and puppeteers, Phil Dean Walford and Anthony Mayor.
Julian Garner plays his reclusive father, Hideaway Tom and Jimi Bani his indigenous friend and mentor, Fingerbone Bill. Rory Potter returns as Storm Boy, along with two other young actors, Kai Lewins and Otis Pavlovic. So begins this re-telling of a story that has charmed three or four generations of Australian children – and gently introduced them to the issues of sadness, friendship, love, loss and change. As the lights dim to black, there is a crash of thunder and flashes of lightning as a storm hits the Coorong. White pebbles define the shoreline and a rowboat filled with fishing gear leans on its side in front of a totem-like lookout tower. Under the direction of John Sheedy, Storm Boy, Mr Percival and the great sweeping sand dunes of the Coorong itself come to life on the evocative landscape suggested by Michael Scott-Mitchell’s set and the incredible puppets he has designed.Ī huge whalebone curves eerily across the back of the set sheltering the humpy that is Storm Boy’s home. Tom Holloway’s sensitive adaptation of Colin Thiele’s timeless story of a boy and a pelican has returned to Sydney before beginning a national tour.
24 April to, then touring to Wollongong, Geelong, Canberra, Mandurah and Perth Sydney Theatre Company / Barking Gecko Theatre Company. By Colin Thiele, adapted by Tom Holloway.
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