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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20071024
Author:Steve Pratt

Pinocchio, York Theatre RoyalANYONE expecting a light and jolly Pinocchio will get a rude shock. This is a decidedly dark version, exploiting aspects played down in the Disney cartoon and most other productions of the Carlo Collodi story.The show is also different in another important respect as it mixes actors with and without learning disabilities.York Theatre Royal joins forces with two companies - Full Body And the Voice, and The Shysters - who work with learning disability actors. Here they're integrated in a main house production, something of a rarity in theatre today.The piece has ...

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