Circus, theatre, comedy, dance and music all tied together with an interesting twist on a fairytale. It is one of the shows which ends with you wanting more. You get to the end not realizing that fourty minutes have past.

There is a man on a piano(dissemodied voice and music), a boy(the frog prince), and a girl(the princess).

A cute, and entertaining love story is what it is. With dangerous circus bits inbetween the laughter, and mood music. The girl(Hazel Bock) was very good at juggling and getting pretend angry. The boy prince (Avan Whaite) was zipping all over the place, and had me a little scared when he climbed to the top of the poll and started swining. Then the piano man(I can not find out his name with ten minutes of googling) holds it all together with his witty comments, and very nice piano bashing.

A very successful show, with each of the three performers doing very well separately and together. I hope they do more shows after the Melbourne Fringe festival is over.

ps. The fake french accent of the prince was really dodgey. In a funny way.

sorce: http://rene.f0o.com/mywiki/TheFrogPrince

Review of our preview night by Naomi Guss from puppets in Melbourne.

...Throughout the performance, it's quite clear that the group have a great sense of comedy. The acts are well-timed, punchlines and jokes are nicely set up and it's clear that there has been a lot of thought put into making the show comedic and fun.

To highlight the performance, live music is provided by keyboardist Ben Fuller. He also provides some additional `narration' of sorts. His music is not only apt to the mood, context and setting, but well played, and his character as narrator reminded me of Teller (of Penn and Teller). The addition of the music is an excellent choice, and I enjoyed it a lot.

The really good stuff: if you want to see a truly flexible body, Power's contortionism is amazing. No wonder he's worked with Cirque du Soleil! An excellent example of human puppetry! Whaite's extraordinary pole skills - his fearlessness on a 5metre high pole will scare everyone. Additionally, his own gender-bending character is absolutely hilarious. Fedorowjtsch' s character and clowning is a delight to watch, and Bock's strength in acrobalance is a feat to be admired.

One of my favourite moments was when Power couldn't pronounce a word, and momentarily, both Power and Fedorowjtsch had the opportunity to show their effortless improvisation skills. In this moment, both were free from the rehearsed lines and let go of any nervousness or stress of having to remember cues, blocking or anything else that goes with self-produced shows.

The audience lapped up the circus acts and had a lot of laughs. As with puppetry, circus is one of those art forms where it's ok, nay, desired, to leave the audience wanting more. Walking out of The Diary of Alexander Flemming I certainly wanted more.