Mr Stink

Synopsis

Chloe doesn’t like school very much. She isn’t as cool as the other kids. No iPhone, no DS and no friends. Then she meets Mr Stink - the local tramp. Yes, he smells a bit but he’s the only person who’s ever been nice to her and that includes her mother - an awful snob who wants to be the local MP and is trying to rid the streets of its homeless. About to lose her only friends. Chloe finds somewhere for him to hide.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 7 June 2011

It had to come. We’ve had 3D effects in the theatre, thanks to Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series. Now it’s scratch’n’sniff, courtesy of Celessence and the excellent stage adaptation by Matthew White of David Walliams’ children’s book about a tramp and a bullied girl  – Mr Stink.

The designer Charlie Cridlan echoes Quentin Blake’s pen-and-ink with watercolour illustrations for the book as far as the setting and the two puppets – the dog Duchess, the cat Elizabeth and Chloe’s spoilt brat of a younger sister Annabelle – are concerned, but the other characters are realistic in costume and fully convince as persons.

Two full hours is quite lengthy for a children’s show, but the young audience remained completely engrossed in the stage happenings throughout. Peter Edbrook is very good as the tramp befriended by Lotte Gilmore’s Chloe. Gilmore is moving as ...

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Latest User Review

Deanah - 24 July 2011:

Thought the show was very amateur and didn't think it was worth the money to be honest have seen better at local amateur dramatics. I have to say though - my children loved it....

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