Welcome to Pied Piper Theatre Company! We create exciting, high quality and magical plays for children. Pied Piper works in schools, theatres and art centres, specialising in new writing or new adaptations of favourite stories or books.
The last month of the tour takes Great Gran to Andover, Portsmouth, Chipping Norton, Swindon, Salisbury, Bridport, Southampton, Cranleigh and Birmingham!
You can download a Family Fun Pack which tells you more about the play - Here
For a direct link to the Education Pack for schools, click - Here
There’s supposed to be a rapport between the very young and the very old but when Ollie’s great-grandmother, Olive, comes to stay with his family to recover from a fall, there’s little indication of any family love.
How the pair overcome their initial hostility and connect with each other was the theme of this charming play from the Pied Piper Theatre Company.
It’s aimed at children but there’s a deeper element to the piece that raises it above run-of-the-mill. There are interesting parallels between the two. Ollie’s feeling distraught because he has moved house and hasn’t made friends at his new school. His great-grandmother is feeling equally distraught at her helplessness and her ever-advancing years. Gradually, they see each other’s point of view, a process helped greatly by Olive revealing her hidden sporting talent.
It sounds like it could be mawkish but Mike Kenny’s script lay off the saccharine and director Tina Williams kept things chugging along briskly. There were some inspirational uses of props, including an office chair, and we also got to learn the importance of singing God Save The Queen while underwater.
Jules Craig brought a touch of wry humour to Olive, while reminding us of the pains of growing old. Dudley Rees, with the task of impersonating a small boy, hit the right mix of obstinacy, curiosity and peevishness.
Pied Piper took some important themes and delivered an entertaining and delightful drama. The young audience on Sunday was delighted but there was plenty for parents to think about too.
Review by Maxwell Cooter. Read online here.
Hallo and welcome to our new web site! This marks an exciting new development for Pied Piper and our fantastic illustrator Rose Forshall who has been designing our flyers over the last four years. We are delighted to be working with Wibbly Wobbly Website to set up a mailing list to help you keep in touch with our future productions and to explore new technical innovations.
