Luna: A Play About the Moon review – science and stories in cabaret for kids

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Roustabout Theatre's encounters with the moon range from gravity-dancing to skits with astronauts and a werewolf

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Is there a lunar module in your home-schooling schedule? If so, then you may like to try this fun, fact-packed cabaret for kids, which mixes science and storytelling in a series of skits with recurring scenarios. There's the werewolf who pleads to a policeman ("the moon made me do it!"); a couple preparing to blast off into space, armed with battered suitcases and an acoustic guitar; and an orbiting moon and Earth whose relationship veers from adoration to lovers' tiff ("sometimes he completely overshadows me!").

The Bristol-based Roustabout Theatre created Luna to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They had to cut short their UK tour because of the coronavirus closures, so have made the show available online. It's aimed at over-fives and I settle down with rocket-loving Hilda, six, who approves of the "big squiggle" galactic backdrop.