Shooting the Moon, Theatre Royal, Margate by Susan Elkin

Theatre Royal, Margate: This quirky, wordless, engaging four-hander tells the episodic story of the French film pioneer Georges Melies in a series of "unreliable dreams" from his deathbed in 1938. A full mask show, each of its short scenes is in a slightly different style or mood but generally reflective of Melies' own genre, so we get lots of silent film-style music (by Mark Dean) with plenty of piano…

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