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Taiwan Season: I Am The BOSS

 
Mark Harding Review by Mark Harding 4 Published: 7 Aug 2024 Assembly George Square Gardens Show Dates: 1 Aug 2024-25 Aug 2024

I can’t imagine a child who wouldn’t love this show. The acrobats play three children who have been left alone in the house. They play games, do chores, find food and sweeties, fall out, fight and make up.They are of different ages and have their own characters: if they had names they would be Proud, Silly and Show-Off.

Perfectly calibrated for the ages of three years and upwards

The production is perfectly calibrated for the ages of three years and upwards. The set is a familiar sitting room. The props are familiar objects – packets of food (and a water bottle!), a sofa, and sofa cushions. Moreover, the acrobatics are set at the right scale to be comprehensible to a young child; not too big, and largely extensions of the horseplay, but awesome enough to thrill older children and adults.

Kids love anarchy and naughtiness. There is plenty of that, but the naughtiness comes from the show's exuberance, showoffiness, and the joy of being silly, things all kids know well. There is a range of emotions in the show – again, these are things kids understand well: falling out, being left out, feeling guilty, and making up.

Audience participation from the kids is gentle, strictly voluntary and the reactions are joyous.

The music volume is, I think, set correctly, but is perhaps occasionally loud if a child is very sensitive to noise. (Having said that, the children in the audience get pretty loud themselves at the end.)

At the show I attended the kids loved the constant physical jokes, were enthralled by the acrobatics, and were getting deliriously excited by the end. A delight.

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Find out what kind of hijinks three competitive yet playful siblings get up to when they're left home alone. This fizzy, highly acrobatic and gently interactive family entertainment is the brainchild of the young, award-winning makers of Fringe 2023's hit circus/dance show Duo. 'Right on the money' (Scotsman). 'Makes the heart race' (BroadwayBaby.com). Loaded with all manner of adroit balances, flips, springs, flings and spins, it's a light-hearted, personality-driven delight and guaranteed fab fun for all ages. European premiere.