As with its predecessor, The Lost Words Card Game, the game is won by placing your Spell cards over your beautifully illustrated Nature cards before your opponent. Lamenting the fact that she failed to introduce herself to her classmates, let alone impress them, she finds a special book under her pillow. The Lost Spells is a card game based on the stunning book by best-selling author Robert MacFarlane, and Illustrator of over 40 beloved classics, Jackie Morris.
She’s just moved to Wimbledon from goodness-knows-where, and her first day of secondary school has gone horribly wrong. Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but fresh in its form, The Lost Spells introduces a beautiful new set of natural spell-poems and artwork by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. Our protagonist is a naive 12-year-old girl (Miriam Nyarko). Based on the beautiful book The Lost Spells, a magical collaboration between artist Jackie Morris and author Robert Macfarlane, this jigsaw features a truly. An enjoyable afternoon of theatre that will hopefully inspire the next. All I had to do in the Polka Theatre during my showing of The Lost Spells was suspend my disbelief a little, get over the child-oriented flow of lyrics like “I’m a jackdaw/cutting like a hacksaw” and the occasional cheap-pop “smelly poo” joke – et, voila! What a gorgeous show, inside and out.Ī Goblin production originally staged earlier in the year at Watford Palace Theatre, Mary Erskine and Will Dollard transform Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane’s original anthology of poetic spells into the tunes of a multi-genre musical, with Matt Borgatti’s book tying things all together by creating a sweet and evocative narrative, inspired by prequel book, The Lost Words. Overall, The Lost Spells is an ambitious production with an essential message about the power of words to save the world.
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