Bryony Lavery

Nov 16, 2023 | australianstage.com.au | Robert Stevenson |Bryony Lavery |Peter Bleby

One of the most popular children’s stories ever adapts surprisingly well to the stage, and this large cast has a rollicking good time telling it. Most of the major points of the plot are kept in this almost Gilbertian adaptation, which offers director Megan Dansie opportunities to extract a lot of humour, sometimes even teetering on the edge of farce.