Description

A play with music suitable for audiences of all ages, from the very young to the young at heart. 70 mins. No interval.

A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and teach the chick to fly! How on earth will Zorba manage it? But nothing is impossible when you have good friends, wise enough help you discover your true self at just the right moment, and so? learn to fly.

Pericles Theatre Company?s own adaptation of ?The story of a seagull and of the cat who taught it to fly? by Chilean-born writer Luis Sepúlveda who died in the first wave of the covid pandemic in 2020, and to whom this production is dedicated.

Directed by Vasile Nedelcu ? with original music and songs by David Brett (a founder member of The Flying Pickets) and costumes by Anca Albani ? Pericles Theatre Company bring this heartwarming story to life with their special mix of accessibility, diversity and rough theatre.

Pericles Theatre Company brings professional creatives together with young adults with complex needs to create colourful, fun, imaginative shows which appeal to all ages.

Winners of Camp Bestival Family Show Award at Brighton Fringe 2015 with their adaptation of Romanian folk tale ?The Tale of the Pig?.
Nominated for the Legal & General Award at Brighton Fringe 2023 with ?The Seagull and the Cat?.

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Description

Station Road East,

Groombridge,

East Sussex,

England,

TN3 9QX.