The Great Big Dinosaur Show – Midlands Arts Centre
“Never work with children and dinosaurs” is a paraphrased old showbiz adage and a well-worn warning passed down the years to caution well-meaning performers against the inconsistent vagaries of both - you never know what children may do and dinosaurs tend to go extinct. So it takes a strong poet and his gecko to face the daunting two-headed hybrid of the Dinokid, but in the reliable hands of both Simon Mole and his buddy, Gecko, who, I was disappointed to discover, was not a gecko, these old showbiz platitudes can be safely tossed aside.
“The Great Big Dinosaur Show” emerged from the primordial soup of the combined imaginations of these two talented performers via Mole’s 2023 book, “A First Book of Dinosaurs” from Walker Books illustrated by Matt Hunt and evolved into something unique, ...
