This is children's theatre at its best… Anthony Clark's adaptation is both delightful and moving

'Anthony Clark's adaptations have become justly regarded as unmissable seasonable entertainment… A wondrous children's musical guaranteed to crack the hardest of adult hearts… No neat moral yarn, but a humorous and haunting fable' Independent


'A skilful and enchanting stage version of a 1950s classic' The Times

Michael Coveney, The Daily Mail

This is perhaps the most audacious statement ever made on the English stage

Kenneth Tynan, Observer

His spiritual barbarism and magnificent of contempt are doubly refreshing next to the mealy-mouthed winnowing of much over-praised contemporary playwrights

Michael Coveney, Daily Mail