Liz Bower’s versatile characterisation and talent for story telling create a perfectly bonkers yet compelling narrative to which I was engrossed from start to finish. Tying various characters together under the guise of trying to find ‘Sophie Jones’ created a nice link between a host of oddball and hilarious characters which may otherwise have seemed randomly put together.
I especially enjoyed the audience participation elements to some characters - gently encouraging the audience to enter their world really helped to create believable characters as well as keeping us engaged and focused on what she had to say. The range of accents throughout was impressive and well kept up; from Yorkshire to Birmingham no dialect was left unturned and were impeccably executed.
The use of song mixed with monologues helped to give an extra dimension to the piece, I also enjoyed the use of voiceover to introduce a character which was reincorporated well throughout. I felt the over arching theme of childhood imaginary friends was well incorporated and created a sense of empathy both with Liz and her host of characters.
Overall the show was well written, performed with excellent comic timing and had just the right amount of sentiment needed to create a funny and at times poignant feel. The only downside to the performance was a slight lack of atmosphere amongst our very small audience. But the only way to fix this is bigger audiences, so tell your friends and go and see 'Onions and Dragons', but watch out if you’re offered sweeties - it’s dangerous to take sweets from strangers.