Our Thoughts on The Very Hungry Caterpillar From the number one best seller Eric Carle comes a great story The Very Hungry Caterpillar that has not only been around since I was a child but now has been adapted into a theatre show.
behind the story:
Created by Jonathan Rockefeller, the critically acclaimed production of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show’ features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets, faithfully adapting four of Eric Carle stories, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Mister Seahorse, The Very Lonely Firefly and of course, the star of the show – The Very Hungry Caterpillar.what is it about?
Introducing generations of children to a bigger, brighter world – and to their first experience of reading itself. Eric’s well-known books captivated readers with his iconic colourful hand-painted tissue paper collage illustrations and distinctively simple stories,what did I think overall?
Having grown up reading The very hungry caterpillar and loving the story,
to see it on stage was an amazing experience and to share that with the monkey was memorable.
Bringing books to a completely new level and the concept was even more amazing when I found out not only was it the very hungry caterpillar but three other stories Eric Carle wrote, made it even more spectacular.
Photography was allowed, this excited me immensely.
What I also found interesting was the children’s focus on what was going on in the stage.
The bright colours captured the detail as though it was
The page open being played in front of us.
To see monkey smile and enjoy the show was a great feeling.
The cast and production team put a lot of attention to detail in not just the one but all four books.
So much careful detail was put into the puppets and the choreography of the play was played out smoothly.
We see this at the Orchard theatre
Have you been to see any of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Children’s theatre shows in London? if you have do let me know what you thought in the comments below!
would give this show 4 out of 5
If you want to see what other Children’s shows we have seen take a look Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]>
