Aimed at children 3+, Little Drops of Rain is Taiwan based, Bon Appetit Theatre’s first show at the Prague Fringe.

The story features a little girl and her interactions with everything water related. She seems to have been abandoned by her parents and left alone to care for the cactus plants. She goes in search of water and makes friends with a little rain cloud  but it cannot provide enough moisture to satisfy the plants.

Somewhere along the way there is an interchange with a man wearing a metal boiler on his front and there is an exchange of metal lids. Along comes a length of flexible metal tubing which fills a bath with (one assumes) water and then sucks up the little rain cloud.

The parents return and the boiler becomes a motorcycle engine.
The soundtrack to the story is provided by two very skillful foley musicians who use a variety of everyday items crafted out of recycled material to create a range of wonderful sounds from these most unlikely objects.

The puppetry is provided by a cast of two who perform with energy and artistry. Except dancing wellies on stilts, cloud umbrellas, and of course our heroine with her wild red hair.

There is much to enjoy about this production I.e. musicians and costumes but sadly there is too much style over substance. The two children in the audience never fully engaged not surprising as the story has too much abstract imagery with the man and metal tubing appearing with no context. One wanted to know why the puppet had a head and legs but nobody.

My dislike was the protagonist who would wail every time something happened constantly calling for muma or dada.

Whilst it is good for children to use their imaginations this felt far too nebulous. For more information about Little Drops of Rain please use the link below.


3 stars.

https://www.praguefringe.com/programme/little-drops-of-rain/

Performing at Prague Fringe 30th & 31st May 2025 at Malostranska beseda 17:45

Director Hung, Hsin-huel

Reviewed by Nina Gardner