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For The Wild Man he has found a space which challenges his second-year students and technicians and which demands guides with torches to lead the audience to their seats. However, by the time they reach Wellington College's disused swimming pool they have been introduced to the adaptation of the Grimm brothers' Iron John by a storyteller on stilts and herded by a pack of yapping dogs towards the cricket nets which house ferocious wild animals. Once inside the comparative safety of the swimming pool they are confronted by drums of fire, a raft floating in water at the deep end of the pool, and voices calling from the dark, steep surrounding hillside. This exciting space is imaginatively and theatrically used to tell the fairy story about the rites of passage which a boy used to go through to become a man. |
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