The Enormous Turnip
- By:
- Marc Parrett and Niki McCretton, who also perfom
- Management:
- Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company
- Design:
- Edwina Bridgeman
- Sound:
- Gwen Scott
- Lighting:
- Phil Mead
- Musical direction:
- Matthew Huxley
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Puppetry, live music and good old-fashioned charm are sprouting up left, right and centre from the stage of Jacksons Lane this Christmas. Children's theatre veterans Stuff and Nonsense have taken the classic tale The Enormous Turnip and turned it into a jolly two-hander full of wry smiles and bendy legs... December 9, 2011
Everything in the allotment is lovely in this enchanting tale of a couple besotted with nurturing their prize-winning vegetables. However, there is a cloud on the horizon - he wants to retire and travel, she wants to grow an enormous turnip... December 7, 2010
Not very much happens during the 50 minutes of this play for children aged two to six - two OAPs plant a turnip seed, an enormous vegetable grows, apparently overnight, and it takes the aforementioned crinklies, a dog, a cat and a mouse (for economic reasons the original granddaughter is presumably in Siberia or somewhere) and the whole of the audience to extract this gargantuan root from the soil... December 23, 2009
Run sheet
- Arts Centre Aberystwyth
- February 26
- Theatre Royal Winchester
- March 10
- Playhouse Salisbury
- April 12-14
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