The award-winning Story Pocket Theatre brings David Baddiel’s bestselling book AniMalcolm to life on stage in a brand new musical comedy at Worthing’s Connaught Theatre on Saturday 16th March and Sunday 17th March. The show combines outstanding physical performances with great music, puppetry and a gloriously funny script to create one of the biggest family theatre events of the year.
Malcolm doesn’t really like animals, which is a problem as his family are crazy about them. The house is full of pets but what Malcolm really wants is a new laptop for his birthday. Instead he gets a pet chinchilla and a ticket for the annual three-day school trip to a farm… full of animals.
During the most bizarre weekend adventure, Malcolm learns at close hand what it’s like to BE an animal and starts to appreciate just how amazing animals really are. He also learns that sometimes the hardest thing to become is yourself. But will he end up the same as before?
AniMalcolm is adapted by Adam Fletcher-Forde with music by David Perkins and is co-directed by Julia Black and Adam Fletcher-Forde. Designer Jackie Trousdale has worked on some of the biggest family shows in the UK including Birmingham Stage Company’s stage shows of David Walliams’s Gangtsa Granny and Awful Auntie as well as the Horrible Histories shows. Lighting design is by Declan Randall who worked with David Baddiel on his hit solo show My Family: Not the Sitcom which has been a success all over the world and is on a UK tour throughout 2018.
Story Pocket Theatre was formed in 2013 and had instant success. The company won the Primary Times Children’s Choice Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014 with Arabian Nights (adapted by Fletcher-Forde and Perkins) and the coveted ThreeWeek Editors’ Choice Award at Edinburgh in 2015.
Follow Malcolm’s weird and wonderful journey of discovery about life as an animal when AniMalcolm appears at the Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing, BN11 1LG on Saturday 16th March at 2.30pm and Sunday 17th March at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Tickets, priced from £15.50 to £17.00, are available from the box office on 01903 206 206 or online at www.worthingtheatres.co.uk