Escape from Peligro Island

19-28 Apr ,

Theatre

Critics' choice

Bill Blake, aged seven, reviews Windmill Theatre and Border Project's 'choose your own adventure' show at the Sydney Opera House

First published on 3 Jan 2012. Updated on 29 Apr 2012.

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Diamonds! A plane crash! A scary underwater mountain! Lava! A huge squid! Super villains! A time machine! Believe me, this show has got it all.

Escape to Peligro Island is awesome because all the kids in the audience get to decide what happens on the stage. Every kid has a controller device thingy and you use it to vote on what happens next in the adventure.

Questions come up on a screen, like, what are you most afraid of:

Blue: the dark

Red: heights

Green: a bad haircut.

I chose Green for a bad haircut. All the kids shout as loud as they can: Blue! Red! Green! Green! Green! Everyone was going nuts. I was going bananas.

Basically it is three actors who tell the story of a 12-year-old kid called Calloway Brown. He has crazy adventures. He is always getting on a plane to visit his dad or mum who live in different countries.

One day, a man in bowler hat talks to him at the airport and he leaves behind a first class ticket. We have to vote whether he should steal the ticket and travel first class or be good and stick with his normal ticket. I vote for first class. So do all the other kids.

When he gets on the plane, he is given a secret package that contains a time machine and a diamond. The plane crashes on Peligro Island. He doesn’t die.

On the island all these weird things happen to him. We get to vote on what he should do. It’s pretty loud.

It’s really fun when the kid is about to be attacked by a tiger.

The choices are:

Blue: attack it with super-duper ninjitsu kick

Green: confound it with your shouting technique

Red: employ lotus position squish method

I chose the shouting technique. I would shout: “arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!” at the tiger. But the squish technique won.

I thought the actors were really funny. My favourite character was Giles Fesnick, he was the guy with the bowler hat. There were a lot of villains, about 25 … not literally 25, just loads of villains in the villain headquarters and the guy with the scar face and the black glove. He was really funny.

The squid battle wasn’t too good. It was just a puppet.

It wasn’t really amazing or terrifying. It was just cool.

I recommend it for people who like adventures, giant lasers and lots of shouting.

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Words by Bill Blake (age 7)