Young Vic, LondonDavid Almond's Skellig provided the Young Vic with one of its biggest Christmas hits in 2003. Now Almond is back with a charming, gently optimistic fable about human longings that runs at 70 minutes and is aimed at five to eight-year-olds. It certainly seemed to hit its target and win over even the owlish, front-row sceptic who solemnly told the lead actor in the first few minutes "You're not a birdm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PM on November 30, 2010