It's a mad world for the runaway teenager in Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson's novel for young people, adapted here by Tron artistic director Andy Arnold for Katie Posner's dark, fast-moving co-production with York's Pilot Theatre.
It's a mad world for the runaway teenager in Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson's novel for young people, adapted here by Tron artistic director Andy Arnold for Katie Posner's dark, fast-moving co-production with York's Pilot Theatre.
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The play follows the perils of Leonora, or Leo, the orphaned Anglo-Chinese daughter of musicians, who goes on the run from her creepy Uncle John in search of her Chinese grand-parents in Glasgow.
Once on the streets, Leo falls in with the city's fractured flotsam and jetsam who have fallen outside society's loop, finding sanctuary with Gayle Runciman's Mary, who survives by dancing to Johnny Cash records at full blast. With paper boy and would-be gumshoe Finlay as a sidekick, Leo's search is as much for herself as anything else.
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