Review: Up Down Girl is endearing show, filled with love, affection and music.
Adapted from ‘Up Down Boy’ by Sue Shields with Myrtle Theatre Company Reviewed by Sonya Stewart It’s time for Mattie Baker (Lily Harper) to leave home and go to college, and Mattie’s mum (Trudy Pearson) is helping her pack. Or rather, she is doing the packing while the energetic and easily distracted Mattie is zooming around in a cape, listening to songs and playing with her imaginary friends (Michiel van Echten and Mycah Keall). In the end the only thing she tries to pack is a lifesize cutout of Shane from Westlife. As many mothers of a teenage girl would attest, “most of my life i...
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