40 stories by "Ronnie Haydon"
Spare Tyre Theatre Company continues its creative engagement with the care sector with this gentle, participatory piece for people with dementia. A
Ed Thomas' first play, written in 1988, is an anguished portrait of a Welsh mining village in its death throes seen through
In some ways, this production sees Spare Tyre reflecting on its own motivation: the show-within-a-show format has a cast of older performers
Greenwich Theatre, London: With noise levels fit to shiver the stage timbers and frequent injunctions to join in with the fun, this exuberant collision of two child-magnets, pirates and dino…
Greenwich Theatre, London: Kenneth Grahame's wistfully bucolic tale is led a merry song and dance in this clap-along musical adaptation. The boastful toad's comeuppance unfolds wit…
Tabard, London: At a time of year when fairy-tale treasures are cheerfully plundered for feel-good family shows, Carol Ann Duffy's story about what would happen in the absence of comfor…
Broadway Theatre, London: The Broadway Theatre's popular pantomime is always a sparkly parcel of telly stars, razzmatazz and fairytale that squeezes in every generic convention for a bu…
Jack Studio Theatre, London: The irresistible, but ultimately refutable, seafaring adventures of infamous yarn spinner Louis de Rougemont are storytelling gold, laced with a generous measure…
Unicorn, London: This story for children aged four upwards serves as a timely warning about appreciating what you have, and the folly of seeking fulfilment in the acquisition of worldly good…
Churchill Theatre Bromley, London: An impressive, princely flight through time and space means this pantomime Beauty doesn't have to spend too long slumbering. In fact, she comes within…
Polka Theatre, London: Modern adaptations of the 1904 play tend to make Wendy less wet and Peter more sympathetic; Peter Glanville's is no exception. This Peter Pan for everyone aged fr…
The Maria, Young Vic Theatre, London: It may start as a weirdly cultish game of follow my leader, but this piece for four to seven year olds ends on such an endorphin rush that the whole fam…
Canada Water Culture Space, London: Hans Christian Andersen's tearjerker The Little Match Girl was the spark for this slow-burner for children aged from two to six, and it's an ima…
Fairfield Halls, London: A whole generation of small fry has fallen hook, line and sinker for the Octonauts, a CBeebies series about a submarine crew whose mission is to "explore, rescu…
Greenwich Theatre, London: An explosion is never far away in this highly concentrated commemoration of the First World War for young people aged from 13. Together with the references to mud,…
Unicorn Theatre, London: Puppets are good at expressing the essential absurdity of the human condition, as Larry proves in this bite-sized commentary on work-life balance for everyone aged f…
Polka Theatre, London: Long before Tellytubbyland, Tove Jansson's fantasy world of Moominvalley, inhabited by similarly rotund, benevolent creatures of non-specific origin, kept generat…
Unicorn Theatre, London: In this two-hander adapted by Jemma Kennedy from Finnish author Tove Janssen's novel, a weary grandmother and her six-year-old charge spend the summer months on…
Unicorn Theatre, London: Engineer Colin Tonks and Electric Pedals bring new meaning to the term physical theatre by having an on-stage team pedalling static bikes generating the electricity …
Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley, London: As a cocky young enfant terrible of the Left Bank, Pablo Picasso was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Louvre's darling in 1911. The experienc…
The Jack Studio Theatre, London: New Yorker Charles Ludlam's high-camp melodrama, in which two actors share an unfeasibly large number of roles, was first performed to rapturous reviews…
The Albany, London: Nick Butterworth's ever-obliging parkie finds himself with some strange bedfellows in this pretty-as-a picture book production. A soothing confection of simple songs…
Bloomsbury Theatre, London: In this compact two-hander for Christmas, a CBeebies stalwart teams up with his counterpart from Italian telly for a playful bout of European circus theatre, Marc…
Discover Children's Story Centre, Stratford: There are few venues more suited to this malleable flight of fancy than Discover. A show built around the diversionary potential of a giant lump …
Unicorn Theatre, London: The familiar core of cruelty and comeuppance in the Grimm story is overlaid with wit and pleasing eccentricity in this version. In the tradition of Unicorn Christmas…
