Pollock’s Live Toy Theatre: Dick Whittington and Cinderella, a Christmas double bill
Enjoy a performance by Pollock's Toy Museum of the well-known tales Dick Whittington and Cinderella.
Whittington characters, as published by Benjamin Pollock in Hoxton Street and hand-coloured with stencils.
A Christmas double bill: Dick Whittington and Cinderella
Sunday 24 November | 12pm or 3pm
Join David, Alan and Judy perform plays based on these well-known tales...
Dick Whittington has a new script by David Powell about the poor boy who comes to London, falls in love with his master’s daughter but leaves the house when badly treated by Alderman Fitzwarren. His cat, meanwhile, travels to foreign parts on board ship and rids the country of rats and mice, so Whittington’s fortune is made, and the prediction of the church bells that he will be ‘thrice mayor of London’ comes true.
Who doesn’t know Cinderella? The archetypal story of the virtuous but downtrodden maiden whose fortunes are changed by a simple deed of kindness and charity to her unrecognised fairy godmother, involving transforming pumpkins and mice, a midnight bell and a glass slipper.
Ticketing
The sessions are identical; each play lasts about 15 minutes, with a short interval between making a show of about 45 minutes in total.
Tickets can be purchased for either the 12pm or the 3pm session.
Programme suitable for children from three years upwards.
What else is on?
David Powell and Alan Powers, two of Mrs Fawdry’s ‘Pollock boys’, are appearing at Museum of the Home on two occasions in the 2024 pre-Christmas season, supported by Judy Tcherniak.
The Bottle Imp: A Dramatic Romance in Two Acts by Richard Brinsley Peake
Friday 1 November | 6pm
Pollock’s
Enjoy a display of historic toy theatre from Pollock's Toy Museum, founded just a stone's throw away from Museum of the Home. Plus two special performances of live toy theatre!
Date
Sunday 24 November 2024
Time
12pm and 3pm
Cost
£12
Location
Museum of the Home - 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA