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A right wooden bastard THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 0 Lyric Hammersmith

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001212
Author:RACHEL HALLIBURTON

CARLO COLLODI'S Pinocchio is a right little wooden bastard - selfish, greedy, and violent, with nasty sidelines in cricket- squashing and wig-snatching. Lee Hall's adaptation energetically carves this sinister image of the puppet made more doe-eyed by Disney, emphasising Pinocchio's relentless pranking nature, so that at some points it is difficult to see the wood for the tease.

Marcello Magni's production turns its back on more traditional forms of children's Christmas entertainment, ditching pantomime horses and fantasy worlds for a show which simultaneously panders to their lowest and ...

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