Following its premiere season at Theatre Royal in Sydney as part of Sydney Festival 2007, The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom travels to the UWA Perth International Arts Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre.

A new musical by Alan John and John Clarke with Doug MacLeod. Adapted from a series of books by May Gibbs

Neil Armfield

Hollie Andrew, Ana Maria Belo, Simon Burke, Mitchell Butel, Darren Gilshenan, Jolyon James, Andrew Koblar, Kris McQuade, James Millar, Lara Mulcahy, Tim Richards, Ed Wightman and Ursula Yovich

Ladies and Gentlemen, young and old, Company B is proud to present a big-hearted new musical about the littlest fellas in the pantheon of Australian legends, that unmistakeable pair of nuts, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

Australia’s high mandarin of political satire, John Clarke, joins perennial Company B duo Neil Armfield and composer Alan John to stage a sprawling musical feast which confronts the big and small issues for both big and small Australians. A large cast of company B’s finest will recreate May Gibbs’ iconic world in all its squawking, brawny splendour.

It's a baffling country for a young gumnut. The stinky old Banksia Men want the bush for themselves, gumnuts are being thrown overboard, Mrs Snake's up to less good than usual, those weird human beings are lurking in the shadows, and who is this marvellous Ragged Blossom, newly floated down from the treetops? With so much to find out and so few answers, there's really only one thing to do: take a trip to the city and see what the whole shebang's about.

(Adults, why not see it twice? Once with the kids, once with your local MP.)

A co-production with Windmill Performing Arts.
Presented by Company B and Sydney Festival in association with UWA Perth International Arts Festival and the Adelaide Festival Centre. By arrangement with The Northcott Society and The Spastic Centre of NSW.

Venues and Ticket Information

UWA Perth International Arts Festival
8 - 24 February
Bookings: 08 9484 1133
www.perthfestival.com.au

Adelaide Festival
2 - 18 March
Bookings: 131 246 or www.bass.net.au