Popular children’s book Stick Man is coming to Dartford in an acclaimed and stage adaptation.
Three actors and a one-man-band play a host of characters and animals to bring magic to the tale by Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler.
Stick Man comes to the Orchard Theatre on July 20 and 21.
The show – which has had three West End runs and has toured around the world – follows troubles that befall the Stick Man as he tries to return to his stick family and his family tree, from a dog wanting to play fetch with him, a swan trying to build a nest with him and even ending up on fire.
Children’s novelist Donaldson wrote the book after being inspire by an image by Axel Scheffler of the Gruffalo’s child holding a stick, which became the cover of that book.
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She said: “The Gruffalo's Child has a little stick doll and then that set me thinking about sticks and how they can become so many different things.
“I remembered how when my sons were little they would play with sticks and they would be everything.
“I thought about this for some time and how a stick can be mistaken by lots of different creatures for lots of different things. So it can become the mast of a sand castle, it can become a stick for a dog, it can become a bat for a bat and ball game.”
Stick Man is at Dartford’s Orchard Theatre on July 20 and 21. Go to orchardtheatre.co.uk
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