James and the Giant Peach
From: Thursday, 11th November 2004
To: Saturday, 22 January 2005
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Synopsis
Follow James as he makes his way across the Atlantic in the Giant Peach. With a host of insects all tucked up inside, James and his friends eventually reach America. A carefully crafted adaptation of this Roald Dahl classic, with drama, song and dance, your favourite book will be right in front of your eyes! Suitable for 4 to 9 years.
Our Review:
17 November 2004
This little powerhouse of children’s theatre is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a Roald Dahl favourite ably adapted by David Wood, one of the country’s best-known playwrights for young audiences. It is no mean feat for an establishment without West End resources : “no enormous flying cars here” says director Roman Stefanski in a programme note, but he and his designer Keith Baker have managed to conjure a flying (sometimes bobbing, sometimes rolling) giant peach.
Like traditional fairytales, Dahl’s story contains a degree of cruelty and plenty of testing tasks for the young hero. James Henry Trotter’s parents are squashed by a runaway rhinoceros in Oxford Street (whoops) so he is sent to live with a pair of horrid Ugly Sister-style aunts, plump Aunt Sponge and scrawny Aunt Spiker.
One day a strange old man gives James a bag of magic crystals of crocodile tongues which cause an enormous peach to grow on the tree in the aunts’ garden. When James crawls inside h...
Latest User Review
Chantel - 23 August 2009:
pls.. answer this !!!!!!!!!!!! if James was so mestreated by his aunts why did he stay?????????.......... 2.what are the advantages to decision to stay?????????????......... Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!...
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