Children's Theatre is an excellent way to entertain, educate, and introduce concepts, morals, and ideas to children, in a language that they understand: play.

Young children do not have the mechanisms to be objective; they simply want instant satisfaction that goes side by side with entertainment.  Whether this, unknown to them, has some kind educational value or not shouldn't matter, so long as they gain a new experience.

Adam, Alfons and Amalie directed by Ronald Mernitz is a puppet show about an apple tree that ends up growing apples which are sour and look like potatoes!

The actress Gerlinde Tschersich sat comfortably in her technical set where she switched between two projectors, a microphone, a mixer, a mirror and many other props to aid the puppets performance.  She used her voice to its full potential, vocalising different movements, animals and tastes.  The performance had an almost cartoon effect, sometimes you nearly forgot it was live, with the visual effects being so precise and well thought out.

 I quietly found some parts rather funny, although on observation I noticed the children were taking this show quite seriously! Maybe this was due to its content which leaned mainly towards the educational, explaining some of nature's ways and the role of the butterfly and earthworm.

There is no interaction throughout this performance, absent of pantomime qualities and tricks; its impact possibly lies purely in the visual effects.

   There was no crying, no laughs, no talking during the performance (of what I heard anyway) no going to the toilet, nothing!  This production kept the audience enthralled in the action and amused throughout.