Pied Piper has been awarded ACE funding for 'Great Gran's Great Games', touring November 2011 to February 2012. Pied Piper is delighted with the continued support from our funders, Arts Council South East, Sure Start and Guildford, Waverley and Mole Valley Arts Development.
Inspire Mark
Pied Piper has been awarded the Inspire Mark for their new play for the Cultural Olympiad 'Great Gran's Great Games' written by Mike Kenny. A rehearsed reading of the play took place at 'Celebrating Surrey' on Saturday 26 June 2010.
Education Pack
Our new Education Pack for 'Laura's Star' is now ready to download.
The Tour of 'The Big ENORMOUS Present 'finished at the end of February.
We would like to thank Yvie Magee, David Barnes, Roxanne Saili, Lawrence Evans, Brendan Murray, Jane Linz Roberts and Daryl Goodwin for the success of this production. The education pack is still available to download.
Thank you to Rose Forshall for the wonderful illustrations for our book of 'The Big ENORMOUS Present'.
New Tour June/July 2010
We will be touring our popular production of 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' again this summer with Dan Creasey and Yvie Magee as Mr and Mrs Grinling. For bookings RING 01428 684022 or email
The play will then be at the Henley Festival with Yvie and Dan's Falcon Grange productions.
Autumn Tour 2010
A big THANK YOU to Arts Council South East and to Sure Start for the funding for 'Laura's Star' and to Guildford, Waverley and Mole Valley Arts Development who help our smaller schools to afford a performance.
'Laura's Star' will be touring from October 2010 to February 2011. Contact: 01428 684022 or
16 November 2009 latest theatre review:
The Big ENORMOUS Present, Minerva Theatre, Chichester by Vicky Edwards, "Allowing diminutive theatregoers to get right up close to the action, the intimacy of the Minerva makes it the perfect space for children's theatre. In The Pied Piper Theatre Company's latest production, which unfolds on a simple set dominated by the colossal prop of the title, the close proximity to the stage had five-year-old Lily and Rory spellbound even before the play started, enthusiastically speculating on what might be contained within the brightly coloured box. A dragon? Loads of Lego? Millions of sweets?
There's only one present that Polly really wants: her Dad back from Afghanistan, safe and sound. While the playground ribbing about her hand-knitted clothes and lack of material possessions upsets her, she has a far greater worry to occupy her thoughts. When adults play kids the result can be clumsy and affected, but a talented cast of three perfectly captured the energy and charm of primary school children. Roxanne Sali as Dot and David Barnes as Jack were engaging and appealing as the chums who don't realise just how lucky they are. The pair also played all the adult roles; people to whom the sweet and selfless Polly (a beautifully judged performance from Yvie Magee) is so kind.
Exploring the trials of fitting in, while underscoring the point that sometimes giving really is more joyous than receiving, the conclusion for young audience members is both warm and happy. For grown-ups with grimmer knowledge of the ghastly human cost of the ongoing troubles in Afghanistan it brought a lump to the throat and a dampness to the eye.
Exciting, funny and deeply poignant, The Big ENORMOUS Present was an absolute gift."
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