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Little Howard And The Pencil Of Life And Death, Udder Place, Brighton, May 16
2:21pm Monday 19th May 2008
Imaginative, witty and surreal, Little Howard is a total delight.
The show features real-life stand-up Howard Read and his animated sidekick Little Howard, a six-year-old boy. They are a double act in the classic mould - Read is the exasparated straight man to Little Howard's high-spirited silliness.
Using a large screen and a laptop, Little Howard sings, dances, plays the drums and at one point escapes the confines of his 2D life to fly out into the audience.
Children are invited up on stage to play with Little Howard and can even join him on screen as animations, via some clever computer wizardry.
Aside from the incredibly inventive use of technology, the show is brilliantly scripted. The Magic Pencil of Life And Death is the tool with which Little Howard was drawn, but which can also destroy him with its giant rubber. Naturally, he has been banned from touching it. Problem is, Little Howard wants to be 3D and the only way he can achieve this is through using the pencil.
This show is aimed at children but couldn't fail to enchant audiences of all ages.
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