The stage version maintains the bluntness, adds its own clever rhymes courtesy of a remarkably faithful-with-extrapolation text by David Grieg, and bumps the whimsy and invention over the top with state-of-the-art theatrical magic and eye-popping puppets. An afternoon, or evening, of theatre that is not just entertaining for the children it is ostensibly aimed at.ĭr Seuss's book The Lorax is a blunt eco-parable that manages to charm thanks to Seuss's clever rhymes and wonderfully whimsical illustrations and invention.
So far this season there have been at least two sterling opportunities and now there is a third, The Lorax. One of the most sacred of all guncle duties, is instilling a love of musical theatre into their nieces and nephews, and the best way to achieve that noble aim is to expose them to the best the art form has to offer. Guncles, which could be a Seussian word, in the GTA are getting a big break this holiday season. The Lorax: amping up theatrical magic and song and dance to deliver a blunt parableīy Drew Rowsome - Photos by Manuel Harlan "They were destroying quite beautiful eucalyptus trees, and he wanted to do something about this, and he had to find a way to transform what he understood to be a propaganda-oriented perspective on these matters into a fable that even children could understand." But, Pease explains, "he also was confronted with writer's block.The Lorax: amping up theatrical magic and song and dance to deliver a blunt parable - Drew Rowsome - MyGayToronto
Geisel was also furious about construction going on in his La Jolla, Calif., neighborhood. He thought it was "preachy and bossy," says Pease. According to Geisel biographer Donald Pease, the author believed in the movement but didn't care for its rhetoric. Images of an oil-slicked river in Cleveland catching fire in 1969, the first Earth Day in 1970 and other events helped build the movement and put it front and center. Geisel began writing The Lorax at a time of growing concern about the environment. Seuss) such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. With its mostly gray, scrappy, barren images, the story stood in sharp contrast to other books by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. While it might be a children's book, The Lorax's ominous message of what happens when you harvest nature to death made it an icon of the environmental movement, spawning movie and stage adaptations not to mention a gazillion school projects.
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