Little Wolf's Book of Badness

Synopsis

Little Wolf is a Goody Four-Paws. He brushes his teeth, says please and thank you and is always in bed on time. This simply will not do... Come and join him on the journey to Cunning College where he has been sent to learn the Nine Rules of Badness from the growliest greediest ghastliest Wolf of all: Uncle Bigbad! Mischief, comedy and songs create a most dastardly musical for anyone very bad (or wanting to be bad) aged 5 and up.

Our Review:

17 December 2007

It’s easy to see why Hampstead Theatre’s artistic director Anthony Clark chose Ian Whybrow’s popular story, Little Wolf's Book of Badness to adapt and direct for this year’s seasonal family show. Its delicious premise is that at home with the Wolves, it’s bad to be good – parents award brownie points for being bad!

So while Little Wolf’s brother and cousin set shining examples by wolfing down their food and ignoring their Ps and Qs, he’s in the wolf house for cleaning his teeth, tidying his room - and behaving with disastrous politeness.

His despairing parents decide to send him to learn the Nine Rules of Badness from Uncle Big Bad (there’s a whole pack of wolf jokes), principal of Cunning College, an institution more terrifying even than Dotheboys Hall, as Little Wolf discovers after a journey scarcely less arduous than Nicholas Nickleby’s. Beset by buzzards and belaboured by anti-fur protesters failing to recognise his animal rights to his pelt,...

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