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The Review - THEATRE BY SIMON WROE
Published: 22 November 2007

Seasonal snow business

WHEN I was a boy all we had by way of entertainment at Christmas was a pet rock and an empty cranberry sauce jar, but nowadays youngsters get a lot more choice in their festive amusements.
Whether your little ones have a penchant for wolves, cats, snowmen, princesses, Tintins or Gruffalos, there’s something to suit all in the family shows on offer this year, from do-it-yourself theatre for the under-fives to ballet, circus, and panto.
Dick Whittington and his Cat comes to the Hackney Empire, while Jack and the Beanstalk plays at the Barbican.
Little Wolf must earn his BAD badge with displays of naughtiness in Little Wolf’s Book of Badness at the Hampstead Theatre, while in The Night Before Christmas at the Pleasance Theatre a young girl and her mouse wait for the magical day.
There’s musical The Young Ones at The Gatehouse Theatre in Highgate and Seven Fingers at the Roundhouse.
The enchanting Raymond Briggs story The Snowman and ballet supremo Matthew Bourne’s take on The Nutcracker will feature at the Peacock Theatre and Sadler’s Wells respectively.
Three different versions of Cinderella also vie for attention. The fantastic Little Angel puppet theatre has the rags-to-riches tale for older children as well as Little Cinders for the under-fives. A real-life version runs at the Rosemary Branch.
Quicksilver Theatre have a special treat for three to five-year-olds. Upstairs in the Sky invites the young audience to make their own stories and decide what happens next.
And what do a quiff-sporting Belgian sleuth, the champion of the world and a monster’s offspring all have in common? The answer is they’re all being given the stage treatment this December, with Tintin at the Playhouse Theatre, Danny Champion of the World at the Bloomsbury and the Gruffalo’s Child at the Arts Theatre.

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