TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA to Make West End Debut in July

Based on the picture book written and illustrated by Judith Kerr and adapted for the stage with songs and lyrics by David Wood Obe, THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA will make its West End debut on July 6 at the Vaudeville Theatre, and run through September 4.

This summer 2011 production at The Vaudeville Theatre marks the Company's eighth West End family season since 2005, featuring the hugely successful productions of The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and We're Going on a Bear Hunt presented in Nimax Theatres for the last six consecutive seasons.

Tickets go on sale this Friday 25th March at 2pm. For more information, visit: www.thetigerwhocametotealive.com

Based on the award winning picture book by Judith Kerr, this delightful family show is packed with fun for youngsters everywhere and their grown-ups. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of the best-selling picture books of all time. Since it was first published in 1968, it has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and is translated in over 20 different languages.

Directer, David Wood Obe began writing while at Oxford University. His seventy plus plays for children are performed worldwide, and he has been dubbed ‘the national children's dramatist' by The Times. Four of his adaptations are touring the UK in 2011 - Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Michelle Magorian's Goodnight Mister Tom, Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine and Aardman Animations' Shaun the Sheep. David can also be seen in his own West End show David Wood's Story Time at the Arts Theatre, this Easter. His adult musical, based on L P Hartley's The Go-Between, co-written with composer Richard Taylor, opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September. In 2006, to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday, he wrote The Queens Handbag, performed in Buckingham Palace Gardens and seen by 8,000,000 BBC1 viewers. In 2004 he was awarded the OBE for services to drama and literature. Visit his website at www.davidwood.org.uk

Author, Judith Kerr was born on 14th June 1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family passed through Switzerland and France before arriving finally in England in 1936. Judith went to eleven different schools, worked in the Red Cross during the war, and won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1945. Since then she has worked as an artist, a BBC television scriptwriter and, for the past thirty years, as an author and illustrator of children's books. Her three autobiographical novels are based on her early wandering years (which against all the odds she greatly enjoyed), her adolescence in London during the war, and finally on a brief return to Berlin as a young married woman. The stories have been internationally acclaimed and, to the author's considerable satisfaction, have done particularly well in Germany where they are sometimes used as an easy introduction to a difficult period of German history. Judith has a daughter who is a designer and a son who is a novelist. She lives in London. Her books include The Tiger Who Came to Tea, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Twinkles, Arthur and Puss, Mog the Forgetful Cat, Goose in a Hole, Bombs on Aunt Dainty, Birdle Hallelujah, How Mrs Monkey Missed the Ark and A Small Person Far Away.
Judith Kerr's new book ‘My Henry' is published on 28th April by Harper Collins and for all The Tiger Who Came to Tea fans a new range of merchandise will be available at selected retailers from October 2011.

 

 

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