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My Uncle Arly

By Shôn Dale-Jones and David Farmer
Based on an original production by Hoipolloi and Tiebreak Theatre Company

Edward Lear is one of Britain’s favourite writers and his nonsense verse has delighted generations of children and adults alike. Now Hoipolloi invites you to take a journey into his weird and wonderfully witty imagination and join Lear on an adventure towards the great Gromboolian plain.

Inspired by his life, poems and illustrations, My Uncle Arly is an inventive and engaging production full of music, song and clowning that delves deep into Lear’s Victorian sense of nonsense humour.

Filled with some of his best-loved characters, the show creates a stupendously silly and gloriously giggly world where easels become birds, hats fly and where we meet the pobble who has no toes and the dong with the luminous nose.

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