THE TWITS
- Tickets available from Everyman Records
- Hardy Street Nelson
- Ph: 03 548 3083
- Email everyman@ts.co.nz
- Online bookings: https://www.everyman.co.nz/
Theatre Alive and body in space presents
THE TWITS
by Roald Dahl
adapted by David Wood
Artwork by kind permission of Quentin Blake
Have there ever been two more wretched people than Mr. and Mrs. Twit?
Sloppy and smelly, they don't wash and they don't clean, but they do play nasty tricks on each other. They're not just horrible, they're extra-specially horrible!
Mr. Twit's beard is a host to spinach, ketchup and minced chicken livers - in fact every bit of moldy food that misses his mouth.
Mrs. Twit has a glass eye which she likes to pop in her husband's beer, boasting "I've got eyes everywhere so you'd better be careful".
The poor Muggle-Wump monkeys, stuck in a cage in the Twits weedy, grubby garden have been watching them play tricks on each other for years. Now Mr. Muggle-Wump and the magic Roly-Poly bird have an idea for a hair-raising trick of their own that threatens to turn the world of Mr. and Mrs. Twit upside down.
Book now for a disgustingly good fun-filled family show!
Performance dates and times
Friday August 26 at 6.30pm
Saturday August 27 at 2pm and 7.30pm
Sunday August 28 at 4pm
Tuesday August 30 at 6.30pm
Wednesday August 31 - SCHOOLS MATINEE at 11am
Wednesday August 31 at 6.30pm
Thursday September 1 at 6.30pm
Friday September 2 - SCHOOLS MATINEE at 11am
Friday September 2 at 6.30pm
Saturday September 3 at 2pm and 7.30pm
Ticket Prices
Adults $30
Children $15
Family Adult (2 Adults) $25
Family Child (2 children) $12.50
School groups of 10 or more $10 (1 Teacher free with every 10 children)
Bookings: Everyman Records 03 548 3083
Click here to book online
FANTASTIC PRIZES HAVE BEEN WON!
One lucky Roald Dahl reader is off to Wellington Zoo thanks to her creative use of two-minute noodles.
Brightwater School pupil Jade Shutte, 7, was named the winner of a colouring competition promoting a live theatre adaptation by Theatre Alive and Body in Space of Roald Dahl's book The Twits, which opened at the Theatre Royal last night.
With a bright poster that used two-minute noodles for Mr Twit's beard, Jade beat 179 other entrants from primary and intermediate schools in the region to win a family trip to Wellington with Air New Zealand, accommodation, a family pass to Wellington Zoo, a copy of the book and tickets to the show, thanks to Travel Smart.
Jade, a keen Dahl fan, was most excited about going to the zoo, much to the envy of her classmates, who had all just finished reading the book.
Second place went to Susa Robertson-Burns, 13, of Nelson College for Girls; third place to Koebi Moser, 5, of Central School; and fourth to Portia King, 10, of Enner Glynn School, who all won books and tickets to the show.
Producer Hugh Neill said pre-sales for The Twits had exceeded every other show the company had done in the past 11 years.
"So that's probably a bit of a message that children are starved of live theatre."
From the Nelson Mail - Saturday August 27, 2011
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