introducing characters, but the storm occurs a long way in to the piece. William Aubrey-Jones and Lucy Western raise a hearty laugh with some audience interplay involving a number of oil lamps, while a stone-faced Peter John-Morton looks on with distain. Carly McConnell and Ceri Howells provide the majority of the music (which McConnell also composed), full of celtic cadences and lilting melodies that occasionally give way to an upbeat reel. Evocative and atmospheric, it is the score that replaces dialogue in this play, so in essence represents the words, hopes and thoughts of the villagers.

The storm itself is perfectly portrayed, with wind blowing and set rattling, utilising all the pieces that make up the village. The puppeteers create entirely lifelike movements and responses in the young boy,The big-screen battle between DC and Marvel

IN ADDITION to fighting for truth and justice, some superheroes are capable of making a fortune. Hence the high hopes for “Man of Steel”, the latest Superman film, which opens in America on June 14th. Behind the on-screen fights between good and evil in such films there exists an equally fierce rivalry between the two main comic publishers. DC (now a part of Time Warner) went unchallenged for two decades until Marvel entered the fray in 1998. Then Kapow!, Wham!, Splat! and by 2004 Marvel’s X-Men, Spider-Man and the Avengers had left DC's Batman and Superman trailing with their capes between their legs. But a rebooted, darker Batman revived DC in 2005, as is the hope with the new Superman. It has