The Hunt for the Scroobious Pip
From: Friday, 19th November 2010
To: Friday, 24 December 2010
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Synopsis
Come to the land of Nonsense and meet Mr Quangle Wangle (and his enormous hat) as he sets off on his quest to find the weirdest animal in the world - the elusive Scroobious Pip. He is aided, abetted and frequently annoyed by the Jumblies, whose heads are green and hands are blue. Join the Yonghy Bonghy Bo. Help the Pobble find his toes. And dance to the music of the Dong with Luminous Nose.
Our Review:
Ron Simpson - 4 December 2010
No one can doubt the inspired silliness credentials of writer Andrew Pollard and director Adam Sunderland following their production of Heidi for Northern Broadsides last year. So the success of The Hunt for the Scroobious Pip in Scarborough’s McCarthy Auditorium is hardly a surprise.
The Scroobious Pip is an animal that defies all definition in an unfinished poem by Edward Lear. Pollard invents the hunt for it as the rarest animal in the world as the peg for choice encounters with characters from the world of Lear, notably the Quangle Wangle Quee, he of the egregious hat, and a couple of Jumblies left behind when the others sailed home (in their sieve, of course). The text even manages to find excuses to bring in assorted Lear limericks.
The acting and production are as unassumingly inventive as the text. Philip Pellew invests Mr. Quangle Wangle Quee with uncertain conviction and put-upon authority, Matt Connor and [Lindsay...
Creative
Andrew Pollard (based on the nonsense writings of Edward Lear) (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre (Producer)
Adam Sunderland (Director)
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