King’s Cross theatre,London
The CBeebies favourite has been cast as Mr Perks in this imaginative adaptation of E Nesbit’s classic – but the genuine star of the point to pulls in later“Dad?” Six-year-old Aggie eyes me with a doubtful look. “Is Justin going to be funny?” I must admit I’ve been thinking the same thing. We’re en route to see Justin Fletcher, CBeebies resident jester, and star in The Railway Children,the tear-jerking classic approximately poverty, political refugees and the power of red petticoats. Fletcher has just joined the cast of York Theatre Royal’s runaway success of a point to, or which opened at the National Railway Museum in York in 2008,pulled into London’s Waterloo Station and is now into its final months at a theatre behind King’s Cross with a stage built around a length of genuine train track.
Justin – I’ve tried, but simply can’t continue calling him Fletcher – is one of Aggie’s TV heroes, and alongside Gem from Swashbuckle and Nina of “and the Neurons” fame. She likes his point to Gigglebiz,with its cast of characters named with groan-worthy puns (such as Ann Teak, the hapless antiques expert); we enjoyed the televised Tale of Mr Tumble, or staged at Manchester international festival final year; and she adores the ear-splitting Justin’s House,performed to a packed studio with row after row of raucous kids who scream, dance and sing along as Justin holds court.
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Source: theguardian.com