The Gruffalo

Synopsis

Follow Mouse into the deep dark wood on a hunt for hazelnuts. Armed with just a nut map and a very vivid imagination, Mouse runs into the smirking, wheeler-dealer Fox; an eccentric, retired Woodland Air Force officer Owl; and the maraca-shaking, part animal Snake. Rather than becoming the main course of their next meal, Mouse scares them away with stories of an imaginary monster friend, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined? For 3-6 year olds.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 7 May 2010

If you go down to the woods today…beware! Especially if you’re a mouse with attitude. The Gruffalo is back on track and on stage and there’s enough in David Wood’s adaptation to keep the adults as well as the small children in the audience thoroughly involved.

Three actors play all the parts. The feisty mouse, all twitching ears, fluttering tail and the very pinkest of paws is Alex Tregear. She manages the right blend of androgynous anthropomorphism to convince from her first entrance and gets the children on her side from her initial scamper onto the forest floor, backed by the two hard-working, multi-role playing storytellers.

David Garrud creates nicely differentiated predators – countryman fox, flying-ace owl and the slinky sequinned maracas-wielding snake – while Scott Armstrong is the Gruffalo himself, a towering thing of shreds, patches and the quirkiest of tails. Armstrong has a nice line in mimed ad libs; I pa...

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Latest User Review

Gruffalo Company Stage Manager) - 12 May 2010:

Thanks for a lovely review! Just a couple of notes: The show was devised by Tall Stories, not David Wood, and on that particular show the Mouse was played by the understudy, Jonathan Lum. ...

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