Theatre treat for the July holidays
Greg King directs and designs this magical reimagining of the well-loved, deliciously quirky children’s classic by Roald Dahl.
DURBAN’S astonishing multi-awarding winning production house, KickstArt, is presenting James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl for the July school holidays at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre.
Greg King directs and designs this magical reimagining of the well-loved, deliciously quirky children’s classic by Roald Dahl, about the young orphan, James who has a remarkable adventure involving a giant peach and five eccentric giant insects.
James and the Giant Peach stars Bryan Hiles, Clare Mortimer, Peter Court, Belinda Henwood, Nhlakanipho Manqele and Lyle Buxton. There will be an original music-score by Durban band South Jersey Pom Poms to add to the madcap fun of this colourful entertainment.
At the centre of the story is a young English boy, James Henry Trotter, who is four years old and lives with his loving parents in a beautiful cottage by the sea in the south of England until his parents are killed by an escaped rhinoceros during a shopping trip to London. James enters into a magical giant peach while running away from his cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge, and discovers a tunnel, which leads to secret room inside the peach’s seed, inhabited by five magically altered human-sized, talking garden bugs: a grasshopper, a centipede, an earthworm, a spider, and a ladybird. Their glorious larger than life adventure takes him across the world.
Written in 1961, the novel has had many incarnations over the years. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996.
Book for all 2017 shows at Computicket: www.computicket.co.za, 0861 915 8000 or at Shoprite Checkers Money Market Counters. For enquiries for block bookings of 50 or more people, contact Ailsa Windsor of Going Places: editor.goingplacessa@gmail.com or 083 250 2690.
