The Amazing Thing
Lempen Theatre Company bring The Amazing Thing to Cumbernauld Theatre on Saturday 24th May... it's a truly original story told with puppets, acting and live music!
About The Amazing Thing
| 24th May 2025 | |
| 2pm | |
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Lanternhouse Lanternhouse South Kildrum Ring Road, Cumbernauld G67 2UF |
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| £10 - £12 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
As I was walking down the beach, one bright and sunny day,
saw a great big wooden box, a-floating in the bay.
I pulled it in and opened it up, and there to my surprise,
I discovered a …?..?..?… right before my eyes!
What’s in the box? A strange and weird thing? Something terrible, or a thing of beauty? Storyteller, Peter Grimm opens the box to find the ‘Thing’ that takes him on an unusual journey that weaves it’s way through a medley of well known Brother’s Grimm tales, to finally unlock his imagination and free his stories. A truly original story told with puppets, acting and live music. Fun, inspiration and delight for all the family.
Suitability: 5+ and family
Duration: 55 minutes
Peter Grimm is a descendent of the famous Brothers Grimm. He has inherited the tradition of his ancestors and tells the their stories as they were written down 200 years ago.
But, with his inheritance also comes a ghost. The brothers locked something away in a box when they wrote down and fixed the stories. They threw the box into the sea, and now that something, that rogue and wild element of story, has returned with the tide. Peter opens the box and sets free the ‘amazing thing’ to add it’s influence in the sea of stories.
Lempen Theatre Company, is one of Britain’s great touring theatre companies. They tour all over the UK, and have appeared at festivals, theatres and schools in Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Greece and the Czech Republic.
They specialise in modern day myths that connect the imagination to real and contemporary issues and are committed to producing entertaining, quality theatre for children and family audiences.
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