Room on the BroomPuppet performance, length 50 min

Room on the Broom is yet another hit, written by Scottish writer Julia Donaldson, who is an old acquaintance of Puppet Theatre, and her loyal collaborator - German illustrator -, Axel Scheffler. They are also the authors of the famous picture book The Gruffalo and its no less popular sequel The Gruffalo's Child.

The new adventure depicts once again the encounter with the world of animals, only this time the town of the dreadful Gruffalo is taken by anything but an evil Witch and by a far more dangerous and ravenously hungry Dragon. The Witch with bristling hair and her Cat are travelling together on a broom. Due to their high speed (or is it the Cat’s teasing?) the Witch loses her hat, so she lands on the ground and starts looking for it everywhere. With every lost object she finds herself not only faced with quite a range of tests but also helped by some new friends, who manage to find her lost things by coincidence, so she rewards them with “a ride” on her broom. Not everyone in this world is capable of flying; therefore they are all very happy to do it, except for the Cat, of course. To make everything a bit more complicated suddenly the dreadful Dragon pops up out of nowhere, which is not accidental at all, and when he is about to attack the good old Witch, a Sticky Creature turns up as well. 

This text’s dramatization is based on the Room on the Broom, © illustrated by Axel Scheffler and © written by Julia Donaldson (2001). The book was published by the Macmillan Children’s Books, London, whereas its Slovenian version was published by the Mladinska knjiga Publishing House.

Jaka Ivanc is a theatre and puppet director, known for his specific fusion of dramatic and puppet theatre with music – in its numerous forms. He has already staged in our theatre a range of successful productions, and among them the two abovementioned hits The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child. 

PREMIERE: 17th November 2016, Grand Stage LGL