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Relaxing at the Victorian Seaside

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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The Benefits of Water and Sea Air

The Victorians were great believers in the curative powers of both water and sea air. The hand puppets appear, the mischievous and clownish Mr Punch and his wife, Judy. They frolic about the tiny wooden stage as Judy attempts to ridicule her husband for his latest clownish shenanigans. This quickly devolves into a domestic spat of the most wacky and amusing kind. In truth, the humour is a little slapstick for your own modern tastes, though to the mostly adult audience it seems wholly entertaining.

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