18/07/11….21st Century Chicken Uses Her Loaf!

A CHAINSAW wielding chicken is the star of a fabulously updated traditional nursery tale created for children and their parents and running as part of this year?s Towersey Festival.

THE LITTLE RED HEN is the hit family-friendly puppet show from Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company performed by Helen Day and Adam Fuller and directed by Marc Parrett. Featuring a Pig with an iPod, a Rat with a mobile phone and a lazy Cow with a fake tan, the star is a hardworking Red Hen who wants to make her own bread but can?t get anyone to help her. Cutting the corn is a particularly big task for such a small bird and she has to use a variety of amazing tools, including a pair of garden shears and a crazy puppet chainsaw to achieve her goal.

The hugely loveable puppets are created and directed by puppet maestro, Marc Parrett, who has worked with Bristol Old Vic, Aardman Animations and The RSC.
Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company has teamed up with leading early-years performance expert Niki McCretton to create an enormously entertaining show featuring live music, ingenious puppets and a fantastically eccentric threshing machine. The show also uses simple British Sign Language.

?I wish I was five again. Then I could let out unselfconscious whoops of hilarity and yelps of excitement??. A truly enchanting hour for children – and their parents.?
Roger Malone, The Stage newspaper

Towersey is a truly local Festival (based just outside Thame) that prides itself on being the best holiday experience for families. As well as one-off shows like The Little Red Hen, our unique ?Festival Experience? ticket to our Showground offers all the buzz, atmosphere, magic and colour that you would expect from any major festival and it does it all just down the road and for only