This was definitely my favourite of the 2025 Edinburgh International Children's Festival. Why? I was moved by the relationship between the two central characters who played in a band and were to separated by the actions of the dystopian state they were living in. Moved because it was also funny. The actor playing the female character Felka had written the piece. The two actors had worked together or known each other for twenty years - so there was a warmth and intimacy in the playing. This drew me in and made me care and allowed for the rest of the world of the play to be more strange and unusual, because there was this very human heart. The big idea of the play about the dangers of a dictatorship were held by gentle playing, nothing too forced but an unfolding of the story, piece by piece, like the new words that Felka learnt to find her way through the new country she lived in, 'gems on her necklace', as she called them.
Photo credit Lucille Kaempf
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