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Roald Dahl's The Witches

Friday 4 7.30pmDecember
2015

Theatre

Apollo Theatre

Pyle Street
Newport
PO30 1JT

01983 527267

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Roald Dahl's The Witches

Source http://www.apollo-theatre.org.uk/

Mice and hat

A faithful adaptation of Roald Dahl’s ‘verminous entertainment’ (Sunday Telegraph), in which Boy and his Grandmother defeat the utterly fiendish Grand High Witch’s dastardly plans to dispose of all the children in England in various horrible ways. While she and her followers attend a conference in a seaside hotel, Boy manages to carry out a cunning plan, but during the struggle, he gets turned into a mouse.

The Witches are nothing like the ones who wear pointed hats and fly on broomsticks: they look very much like ordinary women, though with various telling differences which make them even more terrible. Humour is provided by the ghastly Jenkins family – whose son, Bruno, also becomes a mouse – as well as comic scenes, slapstick and plenty of ‘hiss and boo’