Christchurch season a sell-out success!
We sold out all three nights of Angel at The Loons, and had to put on an extra show Saturday afternoon. Here’s what The Press reviewer Alan Scott had to say about the show: 
Angel was an exceedingly accomplished piece of theatre. It is a mime drama with elements of circus. One hour long, and with just one performer, it had the audience completely absorbed. Performer Olli Ricken had you captivated, but what was special was the complete integration of her mime with the beautifully evocative piano music that accompanied it. Musician Arielle Atman’s seemingly intuitive response to the drama gave an extra dimension to the show. Ricken, dressed as an angel with a clown’s red nose, is actually a fallen angel who plummets to Earth in the opening seconds of the drama. With her wings torn off and stranded in this vale of tears we call Earth, she begins her search for the way home. She clowns, she mimes, she dances and she balances, conjuring up different scenarios in her struggle to reach heaven again. At one point she even tries to blow herself up, suicide-bomber style. Ricken’s strength is her ability to always be completely in the moment, to use that old theatre phrase. Whether smiling or crying, her face has a believable intensity, and when you add in her masterful physicality, you have a gifted storyteller. Director Lucette Hindin has clearly shaped the story into a dramatic whole that is very coherent, as well as theatrically refined … Angel was certainly a delightful piece of theatre and Ricken is a very skilled performer.
