Customer Reviews for Bluey's Big Play
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Let's divide children by class
Play OK- not great but my 3 year old daughter loved it! However at the end there are big balls for keepy-uppy and bubbles thrown out to the audience. However only involves those in the stalls and left all of the children sitting in the circle devastated and many in tears. My three yeat old daughter asked me why the children downstairs were more special and I had to reply that balls were probably a bit dangerous for the circle but as for the bubbles.... there was no excuse i could. Quite simply I had to explain that the parents of the kids at the bottom had more money and could afford the better seats.
Reviews are spot on
My daughter loved Bluey but was in tears, as were the children around us, as the last 5-10 minutes they had to sit and watch other kids having fun whilst, in the stalls, nothing. It’s not inclusive, left dozens of children under 5 years old very upset and seriously needs to be looked at asap.
BLUEY
Overall very disappointing. The acoustics were poor, it was difficult to hear what the characters were saying. There were a fair number of babies in the audience which seemed inappropriate as they would not have understood the concept and just added to the difficulty in trying to hear the voices of the characters. There wasn’t much interaction with the kids in the audience, and the main story theme appeared a little too intense for youngsters. There was a lack of quick one liners we have all come to love in the Bluey series. The puppet operators were fantastic but we were always conscious they were there and visible so it was a distraction. Our granddaughter was very disappointed at the end not to be able to touch the huge floating balls as they were only distributed into the audience from the front so us unfortunate ones at the back couldn’t get near them. It was a negative way to end the show as this stayed with her as a lasting memory. All in all a very expensive disappointing experience which could have been wonderful had more thought be given to eliminate some of these issues.
So disappointing..don't waste your money.
Thankfully we were given these tickets half price but I had considered buying them at some point (as completely obsessed with Heeler's life!). However from the moment we got there when another mum said she spent over £100 on 2 tshirts and 2 toys (us slinking past the merch stall) I wondered if it was going to be any good or not. To start with it was a bit late which when you have little ones makes a huge difference. Then 5 mins of birds pecking the ground was just boring. The puppets just feel clumsy and sitting anywhere other than the stalls the puppet movers are so distracting....why didn't they just have people in costumes? The story was odd based on a bloomin mobile phone and then about the importance of sisters (just insensitive) with the final line completely aimed at adults. The nail in the coffin was the discrimination of the big balls being only for the richer kids in the stalls...at least they could blow bubbles in the circles??? No apparently not. Just very disappointing.
Bluey Big Play, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
It was well overpriced and very average show, very little interaction for the little ones. Overall very disappointing. On top of that, the cost of the merchandise is beyond daylight robbery. A little Bluey cuddly toy you would get at the fair and a light up windmill which was broken by the time my granddaughter got home cost £41. Absolutely ridiculous, not worth more than £10 for both. A disgrace.
Unthoughtful and cruel to the kids on balconies
I would be happy to write a good review about the play, but unfortunately we have no positive emotions left after leaving the theatre in tears! Literally! After watching this celebration of life with lots of baloons and bubbles for everyone who was lucky/rich enough to get a seat in the stalls section, what else could a child do when there was NOTHING for those sitting on the balconies! Not even bubbles!!! Devastating! And I as a parent - heartbroken! Until today my boy had no issues with sitting on balconies (I can barely afford the cheapest seats, and do my best to culturally educate my son), but today he was leaving the theatre crying and saying that he doesn't want to seat on the balconies ever again! What should I do now!????