P6/7 Scalloway Junior High School

 A review by Kaylee and John P6

Scalloway School gave the drama group Lickety-spit a very warm welcome on the 14th February 2007. Lickety-spit is a drama group made up out of quite a few small groups. The one that was up had four people from Edinburgh. There names were Itxso Moreno who played Balexto, Johnny Austin who played Nin & Finn, Sean Hay who played Fitz & Captain Crill and Sarah Hawork who played Oona & Isabella. Big Betty was the boat, which was the center of each scene.  

The play began with Balexto drifting out to sea as a small child. The boat began to sink and the Green Whale came and saved her. Since then she had been living on the Big Betty. The three children called Finn, Oona and Fitz had skipped school one day and went down to the pier. There they found the Big Betty. They stood and spoke for a bit speaking about whether they should go to sea or not. They were encouraged by Captain Crill to go. They thought if they came home with lots of money there mother wouldn’t care about them leaving.

The other people that were on the boat were skipper Nin and cook Isabella (retired queen of Spain). She had gone back with Captain Crill when he was still a pirate. That was also the experience that had made him retire from being a pirate. On the trip the children became great friends with Balexto. Of course they also helped to keep her secrecy of being on the boat. One day on the trace to catch the green whale, they got trapped in the green whale. Luckily he opened his mouth and floated them out in a bubble.While the Green whale was still there Captain Crill told us about the whale baby and how he had saved that poor child. That was when they figured out that Nin was the whale baby. In the end Nin gets on the whale on an adventure to find his family. Balexto was happy for him but also upset. She knew her family was gone so went home with Oona and her brothers. The children in the audience also really enjoyed the added extra of fresh oranges in the interval.