Even these less interesting species really are incredible, their skin stretching and loosening in realistic wrinkles, their eyes flickering, heads twitching and mouths unlocking in an uncanny semblance of life. Steadily we are introduced to the Liliensternus and Plateosaurus, the latter defending its eggs from the predatory former. These part-animatronic, part-puppet creations are the money shot, and they're right on it. Huxley, alternately played Rob Carroll and Dominic Rickhards (the latter was in action on opening night), dance among the outcrops and the dinosaurs when they appear, a good part of his job just to gaze at the beasts in awe while the audience get a good look. The set is in-the-round, with the central stage holding an artificial outcrop of rock in the middle and a large prop entrance disguised by an even bigger jawful of fangs and a video projection screen/doorway.
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