5 - 23 July 2017
Young Audiences Musical

Greg King of Kickstart directs and designs this magical re-imagining of the well-loved, deliciously quirky Roald Dahl children’s classic  about the young orphan, James, who has a remarkable adventure involving a giant peach and five eccentric giant insects.

James and the Giant Peach stars Bryan Hiles, Clare Mortimer, Peter Court, Belinda Henwood, Nhlakanipho Manqele and Lyle Buxton.  At the centre of the story is a young English boy, James Henry Trotter, who is four years old and lives with his loving parents in a beautiful cottage by the sea in the south of England until his parents are killed by an escaped rhinoceros during a shopping trip to London. James enters into a magical giant peach while running away from his cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge, and discovers a tunnel, which leads to secret room inside the peach's seed, inhabited by seven magically altered human-sized, talking garden bugs: a grasshopper, a centipede, an earthworm, a spider, a ladybird, a silkworm and a glow-worm. Their glorious larger than life adventure takes him across the world!

Written in 1961, the novel has had many incarnations over the years – with illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and most famously Quintin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. Due to the story’s offbeat and quirky content, it regularly was targeted by the authorities – and is no 56 on the American Library Association’s top 100 list of most frequently challenged books!  History suggests that Roald Dahl was going to have as the story’s centrepiece a cherry in the original draft, but it changed to a peach because a peach “is prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry.”  James and the Giant Peach is perfect July holiday entertainment for the entire family.

Performances: Tues-Fri @ 2.30pm, Sat @ 11am and 3pm,  Sun @ 2.30pm.   Tickets range between R120 and R180, with discounts available at outlets for pensioners and children aged 3 - 12.   Please note; no babes in arms or children under three allowed. Book at Computicket: www.computicket.co.za / 0861 915 8000 / Shoprite Checkers Money Market Counters. For enquiries for block bookings of 50 or more people / entire performances, please contact Ailsa Windsor of Going Places: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or 083 250 2690.  For more info, visit www.kickstarttheatre.co.za.