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The Red Tree – Zoo
★★★★ Based on Shaun Tan’s picture book, The Red Tree is the story of a girl who wakes up to a bedroom filled with black leaves. Created for children 7+, we follow the girl as she is swept up in the...
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Wild About Wilde- Laughing Horse – The Free Sisters
★★★★ This production performed in the Yurt at The Free Sisters invites its young audience to explore the children’s stories of Oscar Wilde. A simple premise of audience interaction involves asking the...
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I Believe in Unicorns – The Lyric Hammersmith
★★★★ The story begins with a young man, Tomas, as he prepares to move out of home. We watch as he looks back at the events of his past, his younger self guiding us through his earlier years . At first...
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Edmund the Learned Pig – Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester
★★★★ There’s something a little off-beat about this production. It’s a kid’s show; it’s about a talking pig called Edmund so I know it’s a kid’s show – but when it opens with most macabre looking...
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The Snowman – Birmingham Rep
★★★★ If I hadn’t taken my co-reviewer (Keziah Harris), aged three-and-three-quarters, with me, I might have been disposed to be cynical about this enduring production…but seeing this delightful piece...
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re:play Festival – Billy, The Monster and ME!
★★★★★ Colour the Clouds’ production of Billy, The Monster and ME! is being hosted as part of the Library Theatre’s re:play Festival, bringing back the best of Manchester’s vibrant fringe theatre from...
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Sally and the Sunflower – The Lyric Hammersmith
★★★ Sally and the Sunflower takes place in a flower shop owned by Sally herself. To pass the time while the flowers grow she tells her friend Daisy of her adventures with a giant sunflower. Using...
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Rock Pool – Sherman Theatre
★★★★ As a situation comedy for kids, the uneasy friendship between a prawn and crab is highly original and, it has to be said, unlikely source material. Rock Pool, by rights shouldn’t work, but it does...
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Peppa Pig – Criterion Theatre
★★★★ This “Peppa” review has been written with enormous input from Amélie Delilah age 22 months. “Ooooo pretty mummy, big curtain….. Massive curtain” Amélie’s first words describing the Criterion...
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Re:play 2015: The Tongue Twister – Home, Manchester
★★★★ One day, a critic arose from her slumber, And went to a show where the audience was younger. And since she reviewed plays all the time, She thought, for once, she’d write one in rhyme. A show...
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