Tararua Tramping Club, 4 Moncrieff St, Mt Victoria, Wellington
01/07/2023 - 08/07/2023
Written By Jenny Wake
Directed By Amalia Calder
KidzStuff Theatre For Children
After sell-out tours, this show went to Brisbane’s Out of the Box festival and was later remounted by Vancouver-based Axis Theatre.
A Riotous comedy, a transforming set and audience participation. Tyro, apprentice MatheMagician, can’t get his spells right. So, when Fire Chief Fleet arrives with a monster mathemagical problem, they need to ask the audience for help.
You may remember Haydn Carter from Badjelly The Witch and Kiwi Courage, this time he is returning to KidzStuff as our apprentice MatheMagician, Tyro. Haydn is a Graduate of Whitireia’s Stage and Screen and has just started up his own children’s birthday party company, Precious Moments Entertainment.
Q Walker Shalakazaps into the role of Sumah the Celestial. This will be Q’s first time performing with KidzStuff and we can’t wait for you to see their lovely bubbly personality and big smile. Q has a background in circus, plays Taiko drums and is a talented musician.
Mycah is also new to KidzStuff and a graduate of Whitireia’s Stage and Screen. She is currently in Mokomoko and recently worked on Ngā Rorirori, both at Circa Theatre. Mycah will be taking on the role of Fire Chief Fleet.
The Tararua Tramping Club, 4 Moncrieff Street, Mount Victoria, WellingtonWhen: 1st – 8th July 2023
Monday – Friday 10am & 11:30am
10am shows only on Saturdays
No Shows Sunday
Tickets $13.50 pp, $50 family pass, Under 2’s free
$7 Special Preview, Saturday 1st July 2023
Bookings: www.kidzstufftheatre.co.nz
Starring: Haydn Cater, Mycah Keall, Q Walker
Technical Manager: Madyson King
Front of House: Adam Koveskali
Set: Calico Theatre for Young People
Graphic Design: Nina Kereama-Stevenson
Financial Manager: Fergus Aitken
Family , Theatre , Children’s ,
50 mins
Review by Deborah Rea with Luna Rama and Dev Rama 04th Jul 2023
What a fantastic script from Jenny Wake!
Tyro the magician and Fire Chief Fleet have a problem. There’s a monster on the loose who is hungry for kiddos. Our unseen, locked-away, mathemagician/mathematician, Sumah the Celestial, has some ideas. Tyro and Fleet must work together with the kids to solve puzzles, codes and mathematical problems to find a solution.
The kids are absolutely delighted to solve the puzzles and all beam with pride at their correct answers and at the cast congratulating them.
Haydn Carter brings us a gentle and fresh-faced Tyro who’s giving it his all trying to be the best magician he can be. Amalia Calder’s Chief Fleet is clever and clownish, with non-stop enviable energy – a perfect sidekick to our Tyro.
Sumah the Celestial (played by Q Walker) is largely heard but unseen. When we finally solve the puzzles and free Sumah, Q walker bursts out full of joy. You’d never believe they had been tucked away, waiting in the little set all of this time.
Technician Madyson King creates our spooky, hungry monster and our magical math world. The Shalakazap set is an incredible transforming character of its own with portholes that props pop out of, walls that come down and a miraculous dislodging chimney.
This is such a fun show which really deserves another run soon in the Kidzstuff calendar.
Dev Rama (aged 4.5):
The show was about a magician and Fire Chief and a mathematician. There was a big monster who wanted to eat kids. It wanted to eat me and Luna too. The walls started falling down. There were a lot of puzzles to sort out to stop the monster from eating all the children.
I liked the lights and the sound effects. I liked the monster sound a lot. I liked when I got up on stage to help find the middle-sized kid.
Luna Rama (aged 7):
The mathematician was stuck in her house. There was a monster that wanted to eat kids. One day she said to the magician and the fire chief, “I will help you if you solve these puzzles.” The magician and the fire chief solved the puzzles and the walls fell off the house. They found a door and the mathematician got to come out and meet the kids and she asked us some math questions because she was very excited to be out of her house.
I liked how at the start the magician asked us if we knew any magic words and he tried to make the carpet fly but he couldn’t because he was still learning magic. How did they make the walls and the chimney fall off the house?
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