Just what the Doctor ordered: family theatre at its scary, exhilarating best

New Doctor Who

Punchdrunk production is in the Manchester International Festival is now the most popular in the city

It seems frightened, anxious and cries at the end of the new, nerves jangling drama Doctor Who experience which will undoubtedly be a rare sweat.

children, however, seem to be fine. Excited, smiling and fine.

Punchdrunk Theatre Company has opened a case that fits perfectly with the support cliché of "highly anticipated" and "See said" demand is the fall of the Elysee was also high performance additional to 13 years have been scheduled during his career at Manchester International Festival.

But it is an experiment designed primarily to fans of a young doctor. Adults may have access to this action if it is accompanied by a period of six to 12 years. And with a main part of Bridgewater excitable Little Hulton, Salford, The Guardian managed to smuggle in one of the extracts.

Punchdrunk has already established a reputation for diving in the theater with shows such as The Masque of the Red Death and the doctor that this production, a collaboration with the BBC, continues in a similar line.

groups begin their journey in a gallery of the museum, where a kindly, gray-jacketed man named Willard, the guy who always has candy in his pocket, tells the story of Elisha a ship that sank mysteriously in 1888. A few minutes later, the soldiers storm in. There is a crisis - we can only help

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is run outside as quickly as possible, which is the time you discover just how awesome fast six years, children can move.

From there, it is a quick change costumes security and use the speed of an exciting adventure that takes us back in time to save the doctor.

As in previous Punchdrunk productions, attention to detail is impressive. The children here are really living the experience. They are entitled: solve puzzles, keeping doors and make decisions. One of the most terrifying scenes took us into a dark corridor, like an angel cry, which seems to be closer.

After 11 years, Jack, Naomi and Zoe and Luke, 10, gave their unanimous verdict - they loved it. "It was a little scary, but cool, a good adventure," says Jack. "I would definitely go back," says Lucas. "It was fantastic."

• Even Professor Karen Pickard - who with a colleague and I got scolded by the captain of Solomon and Albright not be fast enough - had words of praise for the experience. "They will talk about for days," without any apparent warning track.
There is no doubt scared, but they are good shocks, followed by something completely different. After a scare that could come from the magic and wonder of, say, an amusement park in Victoria.

"We made a lot of work to assess the appropriate level of horror," said the producer Gabby Vautier.

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