Second show of a 2 show day after getting a train direct from the matinee of Annie at Woking.
I saved over half the face value with an ATG offer for opening night.
It is adapted from the Roald Dhal story about a well-loved polite child who lives in poverty who wins a competition to tour Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory along with 4 spoilt rich kids. Wonka has devised tasks to choose a worthy child to win a valuable prize.
The special effects largely rely on computer graphics projected on a screen and the stage (which doesn’t help anyone in the stalls) and the audience’s pure imagination, with a glass elevator at the end on wires over the stage. In addition, the oompa loompas looked like human-sized budget cyborgs but the show was amusing.
6/10
