However space doesn't limit their ambitions for here they are, celebrating their 25th anniversary, by sprouting a splendiferously cheeky Beanstalk that is so verdant with family fun and the wicked doings of a conniving, money-grabbing Queen that you wonder if there'll be more than a glimpse of any Giant. Maybe just a token body part and a thundering voice, so that Jack (Matthew McBrier) can prove he's not useless by rescuing Jill (Alison Tennant) from being toast? But no: there is a toweringly huge Giant who walks, talks and has the wee boys in the front row jumping and squeaking with gleeful trepidation. The same wee boys will, along with other youngsters, carry out several stage invasions in their eagerness to help Dame David Wallace keep up with the plot.





