Specifications
This utterly bewitching illustrated toy theatre recreates the scary story of Hansel & Gretel, tempted into the Wicked Witch’s beautiful gingerbread house. Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ uniquely expressive painterly style evokes the story’s darker undercurrents, yet is peppered with delicious sweets and candies.
This fully playable toy theatre comes complete with a proscenium, stage, six backcloths, two side wings, 14 characters/props and Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop curtain. The eerie, somewhat grisly tale is told in an entertaining script written by the artist. The theatre requires cutting and sticking to set up using scissors or a craft knife for maximum precision.
The third edition by award winning artist Clive Hick-Jenkins comes in a decorative paper envelope to keep your cut out model pieces whilst making it up. The script and instructions comes in a 12 page A6 booklet with a mini poster for ‘Hansel & Gretel at Jury Lane’ that can be cut out and posted to advertise your performance.
- Illustrator
- Clive Hicks-Jenkins
- Assembled HxWxD cm
- H26xW19xD9.5cm
- Flat packed HxWxD cm
- A4 bag containing 6 sheets
- Materials
- A4 Colour Prints on 300gsm card
- Country of Origin
- UK
- Age Suitability
- 12 years +
About Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins’ love of toy theatres has proved a lifelong inspiration for his successful creative career, which has also encompassed choreography, puppetry and theatre design.
Described by Simon Callow as ‘one of the most individual and complete artists of our time’, Clive has designed a toy theatre for Pollocks, thereby ticking off one of his life ambitions. His Pollock’s design forms part of his Hansel & Gretel opus which includes an illustrated darker version of the story for St Judes as well as a theatre production with words by Simon Armitage.
