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My Mother Told Me Not to Stare

A deliciously dark operetta for curious children and their grown ups

For everyone aged 8 years and above

Have you ever done things your parents told you not to do? Have you swallowed the pips of an apple and waited for a tree to grow in your belly? Have you made a face when the wind changed? Or turned your back on the sea?

In Bobby Rogers town everyone lives very normal lives. But Bobby has noticed that a child who was there one minute is gone the next. Disappeared. So he digs a hole through the earth, All the way to kangaroos and upsidedowness, And he may have stayed forever there, But vanishing kids does not seem fair, And there is nothing so fun as a grudge to bear, So one day Bobby Rogers returns to Upper Crumble to settle the score…

Told in an operatic, gothic style My Mother Told Me Not To Stare is about the disappeared, those kids who did something naughty and got sent to The Fixing Kitchen, a place from which they never returned.

The only boy who can stop it, is the naughtiest one of all

Touring nationally in 2010 and 2011 for everyone aged 8 years and above.

Based on an original idea by Australian artists Finegan Kruckemeyer, Daisy Brown, Ian Moorhead, and Mario Spate.

For more information about our show, please check out our Mini Site where you will be able to listen to some of the music, meet the characters and leave your commemts.


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Creative Team

Nina Hajiyianni - Director
Martyn Harry - Composer
Finegan Kruckemeyer - Writer
Bek Palmer - Designer
Miranda Thain - Producer

About the Project

Theatre Hullabaloo are working with Action Transport Theatre to develop a new operetta for children aged 8+ and their families to enjoy. Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer has created a deliciously dark story set in the town of Upper Crumble and Martyn Harry, Professor of Music at Oxford University, has developed the words into a beautiful fusion of music and song for young audiences.

Booking Information

We are currently taking bookings for our Spring tour of My Mother Told Me Not to Stare. If you are interested in booking the show, please contact Diann Allenby, Tour Coordinator - diann@theatrehullabaloo.org.uk

Open QuoteFinegan Kruckemeyer's splendidly quirky play... is worthy of its international acclaimEnd Quote
Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, Sunday Herald


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