By Michael Morpurgo
In an adaptation by Samuel Adamson
Originally produced by Regent’s Park Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre
We are delighted that our 2016 production of Michael Morpurgo’s Running Wild embarked on its first UK tour with Children’s Touring Partnership, from February through to June 2017.
★★★★ “AUDACIOUS and IMAGINATIVE, stylishly directed and those puppets are things of never-ending beauty.” Evening Standard
For Will, going to Indonesia isn’t just another holiday with mum. It’s a new start, and the chance to ride an elephant called Oona.
But then the tsunami hit – and Oona charges into the jungle, with her young rider desperately clinging on.
This ‘brilliant, life affirming show’ (Radio Times), delighted audiences with imaginative puppetry and energetic staging. The tour launched at Chichester Festival Theatre, before visiting Coventry, Sheffield, High Wycombe, London, Blackpool, Leeds, Salford, Norwich, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Plymouth, Northampton, Canterbury and Wolverhampton.
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CREATIVE TEAM
- Finn Caldwell and Toby Olié for Gyre & Gimble – Puppet Designers & Directors
- Laura Cubitt – Associate Puppet Director
- Barbara Houseman – Voice & Text
- Majella Hurley – Dialect Coach
- Polly Jerrold – Casting Director
- Georgina Lamb – Movement Director
- Jon Pashley – Associate Director
- Rod Paton – Original Songs & Composition
- Nick Powell – Sound Score
- Nick Powell and Louisa Anna Duggan – Additional Music
- Jessica Ronane CDG – Casting Director
- Nick Sagar – Sound Designer
- Timothy Sheader and Dale Rooks – Director
- Paul Wills – Set & Costume Designer
- James Whiteside – Lighting Designer
CAST
- James Charlton – Oona (Head)
- Elisa de Grey – Oona (Trunk)
- Wela Mbusi – Oona (Hind)
- Michael Peters – Oona (Heart)
- Fred Davis – Mani (Body)
- Romina Hytten – Mani (Head)
- Darcy Collins – Frank
- Gareth Aled – Alternate Puppeteer
- Scarlet Wilderink – Alternate Puppeteer
- Kazeem Toisin Amore – Dad / Red Bandana
- Liz Crowther – Grandma
- Stephen Hoo – Mahout / Kaya / Nurse
- Corinna Powlesland – Dr Geraldine
- Jack Sandle – Mr Anthony
- Balvinder Sopal – Mum / Samaritan
- Jemima Bennett, India Brown, Annika Whiston – Lilly
